Adolf Hitler

Standard Name: Hitler, Adolf

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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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Theodora Benson
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lucille Iremonger
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ethel Mannin
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Una Troubridge
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosita Forbes
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosita Forbes
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.
Charques, Richard Denis. “Admirer with a Notebook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1992, p. 166.
166
The dominant figures of Hitler and Stalin are flanked...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosita Forbes
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sheila Kaye-Smith
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.
Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne.
93
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Wickham
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Enid Bagnold
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.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
139
She proceeded...
Travel Mary Stott
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...
Travel Rosita Forbes
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...
Travel Vera Brittain
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...

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