Let’s Not Throwback to THIS Thursday

On this day in 1933, Nazi Germany issued the Law Against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limiting the number of Jewish students able to attend public schools and universities.

The trains and ovens were not far behind.


“We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late. ”

American journalist, Edward R. Murrow, was born on this day in 1908 (died 1965)


American singer, Ella Fitzgerald, was born on this day in 1917 (d. 1996)
 

 

 

 

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