Adolf Hitler

WL was an early twentieth-century artist and writer: novelist, poet, playwright, periodical editor, commentator on literature and society, and above all a satirist and lampooner of many of his contemporaries. He was the leading spirit...

Although there was no tradition of political involvement in either of their family backgrounds, STW and Valentine Ackland became politically active because of events in Europe. They were particularly impelled to action by the Reichstag...

AB was always alert to and outspoken about national and international attitudes. From a chance word spoken by a Swiss banker, she learned of Hitler 's original plan to invade Russia six weeks earlier than...

After Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich peace agreement with Hitler on 29 September 1938, the Labour Party's continued support of the government provoked HSW to resign, with a speech criticising the party's ideology...

During her first marriage, HA criticised the German women's movement for interesting itself in social, or women's issues without considering the broader political causes and consequences which made them of concern to men as well...

The trip (with another taken by Sidney in 1934) reversed the Webbs' previous opinions of Soviet communism, which they had hitherto (before rising mass unemployment and increasing de-regulation destroyed their faith in the potential improvement...

In June 1938 she drew up, along with seven other women, a manifesto for The League for the Protection of the Imagination of Women. The League's feminist mandate was to stimulate original work...

As Nazism and Fascism grew in Europe, MR became disillusioned with the pacifist movement and with the belief that war was the absolute, unique evil. She explained, I believe now that Nazi-ism is worse...

Although she did not actively support Hitler 's rise to power in Germany, EB nevertheless admired the vigour of fascism and romanticised the power of Hitler and the Nazi regime. Her regrettable article for the...

AWE was gathering signatures for a letter to Edvard Benes , President of Czechoslovakia, about Chamberlain 's betrayal of Czech democracy in face of the threat from Hitler .

In 1931 ES was alarmed by the economic situation (which, after a glimmer of prosperity, threatened to plunge Germany back into deprivation) but much more by the rise of Hitler ism and the young storm-troops...

These were, however, very unhappy years for MAH politically. She hated the blindness of British governments since 1931 towards the meaning of Hitler and Hitlerism and their policy of appeasement. She also felt that the...

In the postwar years GE seems also to have grown somewhat disillusioned with British politics in general. During the General Strike (which began on 3 May 1926) she wrote in her diary, I am convinced...

Jameson described the 1933 Labour Conference at Hastings as haunted by the ghost of German Social Democracy, in the shape usually of a young doctor or lawyer, with a pale intelligent face, and no money...

In 1935 SJ 's thoughts were turning even more sharply toward the fearful certainty of another war: in her autobiography she describes her awareness of this certainty flicker[ing] continuously, just below the horizon, a lightning...