... the reading public. The Education Act of 1870 made elementary education compulsory for everyone between the ages of 5 and 13. This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. By the time of the ... through movements like Imagism and Vorticism, up to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the period when the Modern movement in poetry was formed. Throughout the Victorian and Georgian periods the language of poetry was felt to have a...

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... threatened high treason resulting in death if people rebelled. Hitler formed and organized the SA (Street Army) police, and the SS, a select group of bodyguards dressed in black, that helped to carry out his coercion practices on a national scale. In ... the core of his message. Germans were victims of vast conspiracies mounted by foreign powers, capitalists, Marxists, Freemasons, and (above all) Jews - the gutter anti-Semitism Hitler had absorbed in Vienna. Jews were behind war profits, reparations, inflation, and depression, ... staff would present him with information on the status an...

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