Adolf Hitler

Standard Name: Hitler, Adolf

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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.
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.
Textual Production Clemence Dane
CD edited and published The Nelson Touch, a selection of letters from a national hero; she noted parallels between the military state of Britain confronting Napoleon and confronting Hitler .
British Book News. British Council.
(1943): 172
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 F. Tennyson Jesse
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...
Textual Features Mona Caird
This final novel, remarkable as an early treatment of the impact of radiation on human life and of the rise of Nazism in Germany, differs from MC 's earlier ones in being pessimistic about...
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 Agatha Christie
Among its most fascinating contents is The Capture of Cerberus, an unpublished story dating from 1939, which includes barely disguised version of Adolf Hitler : a curious and disturbing relic, as a reviewer called it.
Sperlinger, Tom. “Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks, By John Curran”. The Independent.
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 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 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 Cecily Mackworth
Arriving in Israel just after a Jewish terrorist attack CM 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.
34
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 Una Troubridge
In her Foreword, UT promises, as if a court of law, to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Troubridge, Una. The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. Hammond, Hammond.
5
She begins by sketching Hall's family history and her family...
Textual Features Jan Morris
Here                         Hitler has made Oxford his British capital (as historically he intended to do), with his headquarters at Christ Church (James Morris's old...

Timeline

2 August 1934: Hitler achieved complete power following...

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2 August 1934

Hitler achieved complete power following Chancellor Hindenberg 's death.

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.

1935: Leni Riefenstahl directed her technically...

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1935

Leni Riefenstahl directed her technically brilliant, politically infamous documentary film Triumph of the Will.

7 March 1936: Hitler marched into and appropriated the...

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7 March 1936

Hitler marched into and appropriated the Rhineland: neither France nor Britain opposed him.

5 October 1936: A Sunday march of Oswald Mosley's British...

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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.

30 June 1937: Joseph Goebbels (Hitler's propaganda minister)...

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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.

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 .

12 March 1938: Hitler set on foot the annexation by force...

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12 March 1938

Hitler set on foot the annexation by force of Austria, an event presented as and later known as Anschluss or Union.

13 March 1938: Austria was officially proclaimed a State...

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13 March 1938

Austria was officially proclaimed a State of the German Reich,
“March 14, 1938, Austria declares union with Germany”. Guardian Weekly, p. 22.
22
as Anschluss (Union) was enforced between it and Germany.

29 September 1938: The Munich Pact (associated with the name...

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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.

March 1939: Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, despite the...

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March 1939

Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, despite the assurances he had given at Munich in September 1938 about respecting its integrity.

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.

14 August 1939: Four hundred US intellectuals signed an open...

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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,
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg.
266
contrary to politically orthodox views.

23 August 1939: Hitler's and Stalin's German-Soviet non-aggression...

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23 August 1939

Hitler 's and Stalin 's German-Soviet non-aggression pact was signed by foreign ministers Ribbentrop and Molotov .

2 September 1939: The government of Eire, under Eamon De Valera,...

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2 September 1939

The government of Eire, under Eamon De Valera , declared that the country would remain neutral in the coming international conflict.

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