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Adolf Hitler
Standard Name: Hitler, Adolf
Connections
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Textual Production | Karen Gershon | 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. |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bottome | PB
edited a collection of speeches published by Penguin
: Our New Order—or Hitler
's? A Selection of Speeches by Winston Churchill
, the Archbishop of Canterbury
, Anthony Eden
, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
Textual Production | Wyndham Lewis | WL
published two so-called peace pamphlets, Left Wings Over Europe and Count Your Dead: They Are Alive!, expressing his continued admiration for Hitler
and fascism. Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols. 316 |
Textual Production | Wyndham Lewis | WL
retracted his earlier support for Hitler
in two political treatises published this year: The Jews, Are They Human?, and The Hitler Cult. Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols. 316 |
Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | In Young Adolf, BB
built a novel from the persistent story that Hitler
spent some time in England, living in Liverpool in 1912. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (4 November 1978): 14 Bainbridge, Beryl. Young Adolf. Duckworth, 1978. |
Textual Features | Romer Wilson | This novel seems like a prophecy of the Nazi
rise: Hitler
had already led the failed Beer Hall Putsch, and had written Mein Kampf during the resultant prison sentence. The protagonist, Friederich (Fritz) Storm... |
Textual Features | Jennifer Johnston | Johnston goes on to represent the gulf dividing old from young and class from class by telling her story in several voices: Minnie's stream of consciousness, that of her uncle (Money draining away. Wastepaper... |
Textual Features | Isak Dinesen | Here Mr Pennhallow represents Hitler
, a figure of masculine oppression. He is a trafficker in prostitutes, whom he regards with disgust and hatred. The deepest sunk creature refuses to drink from the cup out... |
Textual Features | Kate O'Brien | The novel centres on an actual historical character, Ana, Princess of Eboli, also known as Ana de Mendoza
(familiar to admirers of Verdi
's opera Don Carlo as Princess Eboli), a Spanish great lady of... |
Textual Features | Bernice Rubens | This novel describes a mixed marriage: even though both the partners are Jews they come from different worlds. Ruth Lazarus's family are Ostjuden from Lithuania: emotionally noisy, demonstrative, combative. Jack Millar's family were refugees... |
Textual Features | Elaine Feinstein | This novel is an extraordinary tour de force in taking Lawrence's patterns of thought and speech to write a refutation, through a female narrator (his protagonist herself), of his sexual theories. EF
traces forwards both... |
Textual Features | Karen Gershon | The father of the central figure may have been a Jew, or conversely may have been Hitler
. Behind the individual story lie powerfully rendered conflicted issues of identity and responsibility. |
Textual Features | Helen Waddell | This collection, wrote Waddell as translator, had no academic justification: it is arbitrary and unrepresentative of any author, or of any age. It reflected her despair during the months when the Second World War ceased... |
Textual Features | Rose Allatini | The protagonist here, Franz Ferdinand Ebermann of the London firm of Fawcett and Ebermann, is another Jew with a far-flung family. His Viennese cousins and their ilk, professors' daughters or bank managers' widows or proprietors... |
Textual Features | Cecily Mackworth | Arriving in Israel just after a Jewish terrorist attackCM
reports how she found the streets of Jerusalem full of tense, trigger-happy young British soldiers. Gershon Agronsky
, editor of the Palestine Post, Mackworth, Cecily. The Mouth of the Sword. Routledge and K. Paul, 1949. 34 |
Timeline
2 August 1934: Hitler achieved complete power following...
National or international item
2 August 1934
Hitler
achieved complete power following Chancellor Hindenberg
's death.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
13
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
35
1935: Leni Riefenstahl directed her technically...
Building item
1935
Leni Riefenstahl
directed her technically brilliant, politically infamous documentary film Triumph of the Will.
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
371-2
1935: The business-oriented and purportedly non-political...
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1935
The business-oriented and purportedly non-political Anglo-German Fellowship
was formed in London to promote friendly relations between the two countries. It lasted until 1941 before succumbing to the pressure of war.
National Archives,. “National Register of Archives (NRA)”. National Archives (UK), 1995.
22 May 2003 Release, Organisation File (Anglo-German Fellowship)
7 March 1936: Hitler marched into and appropriated the...
National or international item
7 March 1936
Hitler
marched into and appropriated the Rhineland: neither France nor Britain opposed him.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
6: 19 and n4
Brittain, Vera. Testament of a Peace-Lover: Letters from Vera Brittain. Editors Eden-Green, Winifred and Alan Eden-Green, Virago, 1988.
5
5 October 1936: A Sunday march of Oswald Mosley's British...
National or international item
5 October 1936
A Sunday march of Oswald Mosley
's British Union of Fascists
clashed with anti-fascist demonstrators at Cable Street in the East End of London.
Cross, Colin. The Fascists in Britain. Barrie and Rockliff, 1961.
159
30 June 1937: Joseph Goebbels (Hitler's propaganda minister)...
Building item
30 June 1937
Joseph Goebbels
(Hitler
's propaganda minister) decreed that decadent art (created by Jews, Slavs, or Germans who for whatever reason were also deemed degenerate) should be weeded out from public and private collections in Germany.
Gilpin, Sam. “Faking It”. London Review of Books, 10 Aug. 2000, p. 39.
39
11-23 October 1937: Embarrassingly for the British government...
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11-23 October 1937
Embarrassingly for the British government and royal family, the Duke
and Duchess of Windsor
visited Nazi Germany, where they had a cordial meeting with Hitler
.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
382
12 March 1938: Hitler set on foot the annexation by force...
National or international item
12 March 1938
Hitler
set on foot the annexation by force of Austria, an event presented as and later known as Anschluss or Union.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
53
13 March 1938: Austria was officially proclaimed a State...
National or international item
13 March 1938
Austria was officially proclaimed a State of the German Reich, as Anschluss (Union) was enforced between it and Germany.
“March 14, 1938, Austria declares union with Germany”. Guardian Weekly, 14 Mar. 2008, p. 22.
22
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
19
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
39
“March 14, 1938, Austria declares union with Germany”. Guardian Weekly, 14 Mar. 2008, p. 22.
22
29 September 1938: The Munich Pact (associated with the name...
National or international item
29 September 1938
The Munich Pact (associated with the name of Neville Chamberlain
, who travelled to Munich to sign it for Britain) granted the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Hitler
's Germany.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
19
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
40-1
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
19
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
304
March 1939: Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, despite the...
National or international item
March 1939
Hitler
invaded Czechoslovakia, despite the assurances he had given at Munich in September 1938 about respecting its integrity.
“World War Two: Timeline”. History on the Net: History Topics: War and Conflict.
Cohen, Susan. “Women’s History Month: Eleanor Rathbone”. Women’s History Network Blog, 25 Mar. 2010.
7 April 1939: Italy under Mussolini further pursued its...
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7 April 1939
Italy under Mussolini
further pursued its expansionist policy by invading Albania.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
19
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
26
14 August 1939: Four hundred US intellectuals signed an open...
National or international item
14 August 1939
Four hundred US intellectuals signed an open letter to All Active Supporters of Democracy and Peace asserting that the USSR was a bulwark against war and aggression, contrary to politically orthodox views.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
266
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
266 and n127
23 August 1939: Hitler's and Stalin's German-Soviet non-aggression...
National or international item
23 August 1939
Hitler
's and Stalin
's German-Soviet non-aggression pact was signed by foreign ministers Ribbentrop
and Molotov
.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
19
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
25
Marples, David. “Far From Quiet on the Eastern Front”. Ideas, University of Alberta, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2001, p. 6.
6
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
108
2 September 1939: The government of Eire, under Eamon De Valera,...
National or international item
2 September 1939
The government of Eire, under Eamon De Valera
, declared that the country would remain neutral in the coming international conflict.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
385
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
40, 65-6
Kelly, Matthew. “Now is your chance”. London Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2006, pp. 31-2.
31-2
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