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Document 1: Termination of employment letter to Fritz Wolff from employer Rudolf Karstadt, Inc. in Berlin, sent 18 April 1933.
We have tried until now to keep you in your position with us under the terms of your contract or, as the case may be, according to the terms of the laws governing termination of employment. So far we have terminated your employment with the legally required period of notification, even though this move has placed our firm in a most difficult position, because of your Jewish descent. Unfortunately the current state of affairs forces us to take further action. It is no longer possible for us, under existing circumstances, to allow you to ever take up your position with us. To do otherwise, we would be placing our firm at serious risk. These grounds force us to the regrettable step of terminating our contractual relationship with you without notice. We understand that this action may leave you in an extraordinarily difficult position, but we have no other choice under the existing circumstances. You would certainly find this step reasonable, if you were in our situation and positions were reversed. In order to ease your situation, we are prepared to provide you the usual payment, under the terms of our contract, for the current month as well as for the month of May, payable at end of each month. Respectfully yours, Rudolf Karstadt Incorporated Berlin-Hermannstrasse In Representation |
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Document 2: Leopold King of the Congo, "In his National Dress." 1904
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Document 3: Novelist William Faulkner speaks of the bomb during his Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1945)
Our tragedy is a general and universal fear... There are no longer any problems of the spirit. There is only the question: when will I blow up?... I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure; when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound; that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. |
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Document 4: Winston Churchill, notes the signs of the Cold War (1946)
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of ancient states of central and eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities... lie in the Soviet sphere and all are subject in one form or another... to a very high and increasing measure of control from Moscow. The Communist parties... have been raised to preeminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control... This is certainly not the liberated Europe we fought to build up. Nor is it one which contains the essentials of permanent peace. |
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