Professor Hamilton's Diary: Sept. 8, 1935

He takes the girls to Sunday school; the fair has 'German Day,' complete with swastikas

“I took both Gwendolyn and Mary Elizabeth to Sunday school, and waited for them,” the professor wrote. In the afternoon they all took a walk — I can imagine that ME was in a stroller — to visit friends, but they weren’t at home.

The annual Reading Fair was the site of a “German Day” full of music and song presented by German heritage organizations. In 1935, with Hitler’s government in full of the press and free speech and finalizing its laws persecuting Jews, these organizations were not always as innocent as they seemed.

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