Dorothy Thompson speaks out after being expelled from Germany

Identifier
irn1002966
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.547.1
  • RG-60.3497
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Moving Image Research Collections
  • William Murray (Camera Operator)
  • Fox Movietonews (Producer)

Scope and Content

Fox Movietone News Story 23-139. Filmed on August 28, 1934. Journalist Dorothy Thompson, wife of novelist and playwright Sinclair Lewis, speaking on being expelled from Germany because of newspaper articles written in 1932 against Hitler and the Nazi Party. Thompson speaks on her expulsion, censorship by German government, and German treatment of foreign correspondents.

Note(s)

  • USHMM acquired a new digital copy of this newsreel outtake from the Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina in August 2018 for use in an educational social media post.

Subjects

  • WOMEN
  • CENSORSHIP
  • EXPULSION/RESETTLEMENT
  • GERMANY
  • NAZI PARTY
  • WRITERS
  • PRESS
  • NEWSPAPERS

Places

  • Paris, France

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.