Liberty Is Dead: A Canadian in Germany, 1938

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137 notes Notes to Introduction 1 The birth control trial of 1936, also known as the Dorothea Palmer trial, arose over the issue of the selling of contraceptives by the Parents’ Information Bureau, an organization set up by A.R. Kaufman in 1930. Selling contraceptives was against the Criminal Code. Wegenast won the case on the basis that the distribution of contraceptives was in the interest of the public good. The private papers of F.W. Wegenast contain information on the trial. See as well Augustine, Ham, Kaufman family fonds, [1877?]–1990, Archives, University of Waterloo Library; Margaret Hyndman Tapes, Ontario Archives, July 1983; A. McLaren, Our Master Race: Eugenics in Canada, 1885–1945, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1990; and Parents’ Information Bureau fonds, 1930–1976, Archives, University of Waterloo Library. 2 See, for example, “Stability and Change,” Times, August 4, 1937, 13; “AngloGerman Relations. Abandoning the ‘Anti’ Attitude,” August 11, 1937, 8. See also F.R. Gannon, The British Press and Germany, 1936–1939 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), 2, 3, 10–11, 15–16, 69–74. 3 Col. George A. Drew, “Finds Germany Touches Peak of Efficiency,” Globe and Mail, August 16, 1937, 1, 3. 4 Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness, 1933–1941: A Diary of the Nazi Years, volume 1, translated by Martin Chalmers (New York: Modern Library, 1999). 5 Lloyd George, “I Talked to Hitler,” Daily Express, November 17, 1936. Quoted in The Nazi Years: A Documentary History, ed., J. Remak (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1969), 81–82. 6 William Lyon Mackenzie King, The Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, June 29, 1937, 630, 632. Online http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ databases/king/index-e.html. 7 Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness. 8 See, for example, I. Kershaw’s Hitler (London: Allan Lane, 2008), and his Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), as well as his The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation, fourth edition (London: Arnold, 2000). See also R.J. Evans’s The Third Reich in Power, 1933–1939 (New York: Penguin Press, 2005). 9 O. Lubrich, ed., Travels in the Reich, 1933–1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany. Translated by Kenneth Northcott, Sonia Wichmann, and Dean Krouk (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 2. 138 notes 10 A. Rosenberg, Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930); reissued by Noontide Press, Newport Beach, CA, 1982. Online in English: http://www.archive.org/details/ TheMythOfThe20thCentury. In German, Der Mythus des XX. Jahrhunderts online: http://www.archive.org/details/DerMythusDes20Jahrhunderts. Notes to Chapter 1 1 G. Leibbrandt, Little Paradise: The Saga of the German Canadians of Waterloo, 1800–1975 (Kitchener, ON: Allprint, 1980) 71, 89, 92, 94, 132, 134. 2 Information on the life of Franklin Wellington Wegenast comes from the Wegenast Family Papers, Private Collection. 3 Information on Margaret Mary Bell comes from the Margaret Bell Family Papers, Private Collection. 4 The A.T.C.M. Associate degree was the highest level of accreditation from the Toronto Conservatory of Music between 1896 and 1947. 5 John Soper McKay was called to the bar in 1883. 6 Osgoode Hall was the only accredited law school in Ontario between 1889 and 1957. In order to practise law one had to pass examinations at Osgoode, set by the Law Society. The L.L.B., Bachelor of Laws, was an undergraduate degree in law and did not qualify a person to practise law. Education for the law at the beginning of the 20th century was varied and complicated. The L.L.B. held more prestige than a high school degree. One could article with only a grammar school education and then sit for the bar exams. 7 Sir William Meredith was leader of the Ontario Conservatives from 1878 until 1894. He was Chief Justice of Ontario from 1912 to 1923. Meredith articled for two years after completing grammar school. He was called to the bar in 1861, and received an L.L.B. from the University of Toronto in 1872. He was elected a Bencher of the Law Society of Ontario in 1871. 8 Wegenast to his wife, continuous journal November 1920, Wegenast Family Papers, Private Collection. 9 A short diary of this trip survived. Wegenast Family Papers, Private Collection. 10 The book, well known to lawyers over a long period of time, is F.W. Wegenast, The Law of Canadian Companies (Toronto: Burroughs and Company, 1931). 11 For more on Margaret Hyndman, see M. Porter, “The Legal Lady,” Maclean’s Magazine...