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1940 - 1941 - 1942 - 1943 - 1944 - 1945 - 1946 - 1947 - 1948 - 1949

Contents 1 Politics 1.1 Holocaust 2 Art and culture 2.1 Literature 2.2 Film 2.3 Music 3 Births 4 Deaths

Politics

Holocaust

• Jews throughout Western Europe are forced into ghettos.
• Jews may not leave their houses without permission form the police.
• Jews may no longer use public telephones.

Art and culture

• La Discothèque opened on rue Huchette
• Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, USA enters war

Literature

• Thomas the Obscure
• Madame Edwarda
• The Garden of Forking Paths
• Masochism in Sex and Society (1941) Theodor Reik
• ‘‘The Aerodrome: A Love Story’’by Rex Warner (1941)

Film

• Hellzapoppin'
• Citizen Kane

Music

• Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 (about Nazi invasion of Russia)
• Recorded music broadcasting on American radio
• John Cage and Lou Harrison: Double Music (first collaborative musical composition)

Births

• Laura Mulvey (1941 - )
• George Clinton (1941 - )
• Bertrand Tavernier (1941 - )
• Julia Kristeva (1941 - )
• Vivienne Westwood (1941 - )
• Stanley Cowell (1941 - )
• Anne Rice (1941 - )
• Barbet Schroeder (1941 - )
• Essy Persson (1941 - )
• Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941 - 1996)
• Laura Antonelli (1941 - )

Deaths

• James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
• Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
• Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
• Walter Ruttmann (1887 - 1941)
• Sherwood Anderson (1876 – 1941)