Adolf Hitler

VB 's political commitments involved a great deal of travel, beginning with journeys all around England as a League of Nations Union lecturer. She was in Cologne in October 1924 observing the hungry, hopeless Germans...

In 1938 MS and her husband had thought of going to Vienna on holiday, but Hitler's recent occupation of Austria decided them on Italy instead, which they toured by train. They were in Rome for...

RF left Russia by way of Finland, and later the same year she flew to Germany to interview Hitler . In the autumn, still in 1933, she was back again lecturing in the USA...

Her alarm about the scope for Nazi propaganda (through agents including prostitutes) among the recently rich, now impoverished, South Americans is fuelled by attitudes which are today seen as racist: to the prevalent combination of...

She observes that she can write at first hand about most of the men who—to-day—are making war, or struggling to prevent it in three continents. The dominant figures of Hitler and Stalin are flanked...

She begins with ironical admission that she does not propose to write about the dire international events of the second world war: Hitler will get less space in her book than herself.

RF published when Mussolini had conquered and exiled Haile Selassie , but before Queen Wilhelmina had fled from home before the invading Nazis , or Russia had switched sides and entered the war against Germany...

The manifesto masks its serious political content with a certain tongue-in-cheek tone: We do not like the way Mussolini has organised his colonial empire. / We do not like the way Hitler has managed his...

Here EB naively publicizes her own ignorance by letting her audience know that she could read no German and had met no single person of importance, or even of the upper classes. She proceeded...

TB 's prefatory letter has a somewhat heavy air of jokiness: abroad is perfectly grand and kind of large. If there is a riot or a coup d'état at any place I'm staying in I...

Here LI expands on what in The Fiery Chariot she called the Phaeton Personality, not among politicians only but among others who strive to reach the summits of ambition. Her case-studies of early emotional...

In Berlin she mourns the end of Weimar Germany's promise of sexual freedom. She laments the passing of individuality and freedom, the assertion of a tyranny that has even the power to interfere in the...

UT , who devoted herself to Hall's writing career both during her life and after her death, provides detailed descriptions of Hall's writing habits, patterns, and schedules. Their days, she writes, comprised [w]riting, reading, dictating...

This book had its origin when FTJ , aghast at the speed with which Hitler was taking over countries like Czechoslovakia, and at Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain 's Munich agreement with Nazi Germany, reported...

KG published The Bread of Exile, a novel with a strong autobiographical foundation, which traces the young lives of a brother and sister who come as Jewish refugee children to England from Hitler 's Germany.