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Re-Building of 1946 Germany | Anti-Nazi Germans
1946, Aftermath (WWII), The American Magazine

Anti-Nazi POWs Schooled in the Ways of Democracy
(American Magazine, 1946)

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Counted among the hundreds of thousands of captured Nazi combatants during the war were thousands of anti-Nazi German draftees who were predictably alienated from the majority of German P.O.W.s in their respective camps. Subjected to kangaroo courts, hazings and random acts of brutality, these Germans were immediately recognized by their captors as a vital element that could prove helpful in the process of rebuilding Germany when the war reached an end.


And so it was early in 1944 when the U.S. Army’s Special Projects Division of the Office of the Provost Marshal General was established in order to take on the enormous task of re-educating these German prisoners of warstyle=border:none, all 360,000 of them, in order that they might clearly understand the benefits and virtues of a representative form of government. This article tells the story of their education within the confines of two special encampments that were established just for this purpose, and their repatriation to Germany, when they saw the all that fascism had willed to their countrymen.

ww1 Medics | WW1 Doctors
1915, Harper's Weekly, World War One

Trench Medicine
(Harper’s Weekly, 1915)

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An informative article from World War I concerning the doctors of all the combatant nations and how they dealt with the filthy conditions of stagnant warfare and all the different sorts of wounds that were created as a result of this very different war:

This is a dirty war. Gaseous, gangrene, lockjaw, blood poisoning, all dirt diseases… Colonel G.H. Makins of the Royal Army Medical Corps longs for the clean dust of the Veldt, which the British soldier cursed in the Boer War.

The Talent for Sniping: Native Americans on the Western Front (The Stars and Stripes, 1919)
1919, First Nations, The Stars and Stripes

The American Indian as Sniper
(The Stars and Stripes, 1919)

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You will see that during the First World War it was not beyond the editors of The Stars & Stripes to indulge in ethnic stereotyping from time to time and, to be sure, they exploited that privilege in the attached article (Yank Indian was Heap Big Help in Winning the War) yet regardless of this fact, the performance of the American Indian soldiers on the Western Front got high marks for a number of valued military skills from many of the French and British officers who came in contact with them. It was not simply their ability to shoot well that inspired the praise, but their nocturnal instincts while patrolling in the darkness of No-Man’s-Land as well as a unique sense of bravery.

The article is rich with a number of factoids that the Western Front reader will no doubt enjoy; among them, mention is made of German women serving in combat.

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The Great Native-American Athletes of the Early 20th Century (American Legion Magazine, 1940)
1940, First Nations, The American Legion Magazine

The Great Native-American Athletes of the Early 20th Century
(American Legion Magazine, 1940)

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Idolized, publicized, dramatized, picturesque members of a fast diminishing aboriginal race, they were the white man’s heroes. But the white man’s adulations and his indulgences helped write ‘finis’ prematurely on the records of some of them even as his vices quickened the racial degeneration of their stock.

Sockalexis, Thorpe, Bender, Longboat and Meyers! There were scores of other notable Indian athletes from ’93 to 1915, but the names of those five were household words in the early days of the new century.

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Fashion Piracy (Coronet Magazine, 1960)
1960, Coronet Magazine, The New Look

Fashion Piracy
(Coronet Magazine, 1960)

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Contrary to popular thought, the Fashion Police, so called, are not concerned with seemingly vulgar acts of dressing – mismatched colors, cheap accessories, gross fabrics, etc – but they do consider knocking-off the work of other designers as a serious violation – and when it comes to ripping-off the designs of Christian Dior or Pierre Balmain, that is when the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Coutre and police inspector Jacques Besson step in.

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More Peer Adoration for Walt Disney (Stage Magazine, 1938)
1938, Stage Magazine, Walt Disney

More Peer Adoration for Walt Disney
(Stage Magazine, 1938)

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The attached article was first seen during a time when a Palm Award, granted by the editors of Stage Magazine, was a reliable form of social currency and would actually serve the highly favored recipients in such a grand manner as to allow them brief respites at dining tables found at swank watering holes as New York’s Twenty-One Club and El Morocco.

Today, a Palm Award, plus four dollars, will get you a medium-sized cappuccino at Starbucks. Walt Disney was awarded a Palm in 1938 for his achievement in producing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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The Birth of Donald Duck (Stage Magazine, 1935)
1935, Stage Magazine, Walt Disney

The Birth of Donald Duck
(Stage Magazine, 1935)

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The introduction of Donald Duck in Silly Symphony Number Thirteen had’em rolling in the isles, to be sure – and if you don’t think so, here’s proof from STAGE MAGAZINE’s Helen G. Thompson:

If you didn’t see him in The Orphan’s Benefit, you missed the performance of the generation. Like Bergner’s show, it ran for Donald the whole gamut of his emotions. Voted the toughest duck of the season, Long Island included, and now crashing Europe, a breathless American public awaits his acclaim. Will his fare be raspberries or chuckle-berries? Donald says whatever the decision, he’ll fight.

Warner Brothers Opens Fire on Nazi Germany (Stage Magazine, 1939)
1939, Hollywood, Stage Magazine

Warner Brothers Opens Fire on Nazi Germany
(Stage Magazine, 1939)

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STAGE MAGAZINE correspondent Katherine Best was not shy about giving credit where credit was due, as you will read in this article that stands as one big pat on the back for the producers at Warner Brother’s for possessing the testicular fortitude needed to launch the first anti-Nazi movie in Hollywood: Confessions of a Nazi Spystyle=border:none (1939).


In October of 1940, Charlie Chaplin released his anti-fascist masterpiece: The Great Dictator. Click here to read about that.

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'The Attack of the Super Novelists'' (Vanity Fair, 1919)
1919, Twentieth Century Writers, Vanity Fair Hall of Fame

‘The Attack of the Super Novelists”
(Vanity Fair, 1919)

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In this article, P.G. Wodehouse (1904 – 1975) sounded-off on a new type of novelist that had surfaced in 1919 – and has yet to decamp. He breaks the novelizing classes into two groups:

…the ordinary novelist, the straightforward, horny-handed dealer in narrative, who is perfectly contented to turn out two books a year, on the understanding – a gentleman’s agreement between himself and his public – that he reserves movie rights and is allowed an occasional photograph in the papers..

A Pre-D-Day Interview with General Eisenhower (Yank, 1944)
1944, General Eisenhower, Yank Magazine

A Pre-D-Day Interview with General Eisenhower
(Yank, 1944)

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Written in the interest of promoting U.S. Army morale, this is a profile of five-star General Dwight David Eisenhower by an anonymous YANK MAGAZINE journalist. An interesting interview, it was printed six months prior to the Normandy invasion:

General Eisenhower’s rise is surely without parallel in American military history. From colonel to supreme commander and full general in two years – from the ‘mock’ war maneuvers in the delta country of Louisiana to the real maneuvers that face him now as he must figure out the when and how of the attack that must drive to the very heart of Nazi Europe – that is his story.


Click here to read about Hitler’s slanderous comment regarding the glutinous Hermann Goering.

military influence on men s fashion 1917
1917, Magazine Ad, Trench Coats

One of the First Trench Coats for U.S. Civilians
(Magazine Ad, 1917)

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No doubt, the fashionable minds who sat so comfortably in America, far removed from the dung and destruction of the European war, would thumb through magazines such as Leslie’s, Collier’s or Current History looking for fashion’s newest thing. How pleased these fops must have been that the ink-stained photogravure boys didn’t let them down! The Brothers Guiterman in Minnesota must have been numbered among these macaronis because they seemed to have been the first to begin production of a trench coat intended solely for civilian production (although it must be remembered that during the war, trench coats were a private purchase item, available only to officers sold only by haberdashers and privately-owned military furnishing establishments).

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