A $1,000 prize contest for the best unpublished life histories of persons who have experienced the effects of Nazism in Germany has been announced by three members of the Harvard University faculty. The theme is “My Life in Germany Before and After January 30, 1933.” The papers will be used “for the purely scientific purpose of collecting materials which will be used to study the social and psychologic effects of National Socialism on German society and the German people.” The judges are Prof Gordon W. Allport, Prof. Sidney B Fay and Dr. Edward Y. Hartshorne.
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