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Adolf Hitler
Standard Name: Hitler, Adolf
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Literary Setting | Storm Jameson | In this narrative a fascist party in England has taken power by force, following a failed General Strike and with the help of an army of National Volunteers. Its leader, now prime minister, is called... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Christina Stead | By chance House of All Nations (which has been called a mammoth study of the world of international finance) |
Material Conditions of Writing | Cecily Mackworth | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Naomi Mitchison | NM
felt that of all her works this was most shadowed by the encroaching power of Hitler
; she felt it was essential for social democrats to have strong rocks to hold to in the... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Storm Jameson | She interrupted her work on The Mirror in Darkness in order to write more intensively on the pressing issue of fascism. The others in the new series are With Europe to Let, Cloudless May... |
Performance of text | Anne Ridler | Another verse play, Witnesses, about the group of German officers who conspired unsuccessfully to assassinate Hitler
, was performed in Manchester Cathedral but never published. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp. 195-6 |
politics | Enid Bagnold | 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... |
politics | Amabel Williams-Ellis | 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
. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 6: 283 |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | 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... |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 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... |
politics | George Egerton | 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... |
politics | Storm Jameson | 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... |
politics | Storm Jameson | 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... |
politics | Alison Uttley | By the 1930s AU
's politics had become fervently patriotric: she was a firm supporter of Ramsay MacDonald
's National Coalition Government, elected on 26 August 1931. Over the next few years her dread of... |
politics | Rosita Forbes | It was something of a coup for RF
in June 1933 to interview Hitler
, who had come to power on the crest of a new generation's resentment. Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell. 304 |
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: Leni Riefenstahl directed her technically...
Building item
1935
Leni Riefenstahl
directed her technically brilliant, politically infamous documentary film Triumph of the Will.
1935: The business-oriented and purportedly non-political...
National or international item
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.
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.
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.
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.
11-23 October 1937: Embarrassingly for the British government...
National or international item
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...
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.
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, 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.
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.
7 April 1939: Italy under Mussolini further pursued its...
National or international item
7 April 1939
Italy under Mussolini
further pursued its expansionist policy by invading Albania.
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.
266
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
.
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.
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