Adolf Hitler

Standard Name: Hitler, Adolf

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Publishing Enid Bagnold
EB published an inflammatory article in the Sunday Times under the headline In Germany Today—Hitler 's New Form of Democracy.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Publishing Wyndham Lewis
Time and Tide commissioned WL to write a series of articles on Adolf Hitler . These led Lewis to produce a volume, Hitler, 1931, of praise for this alleged Man of Peace. It dismisses Hitler's anti-Semitism.
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research.
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Publishing Phyllis Bentley
PB published in the Yorkshire Post an open letter, Creed of a Writer, which attacks the Munich peace agreement with Hitler which had just been signed by Neville Chamberlain .
Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 191. Gale Research.
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Reception Ann Bridge
AB arrived in Hungary in 1940 to find that two of her novels had just been translated into Magyar, and the publishers had waited until she got there to provide window displays with photographs for...
Reception Stella Gibbons
A copy of the German translation of the novel made by Fritz Pick was presented to Hitler as part of an effort to improve relations between England and Germany.
Taylor, David John. “Loam and Lovechild”. Times Literary Supplement, p. 27.
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Reception Naomi Jacob
The Times Literary Supplement judged this a powerful and deftly constructed study, shot with a fine poetic quality and exhibiting a deep understanding of a troubled soul.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(18 April 1935): 256
When published in the...
Residence Elma Napier
EN 's family spent summers at the family estate of Gordonstoun, near Elgin, and winters at another estate seventeen miles away, Altyre at Forres. The family's third estate, Dallas, or Torchastle...
Residence Margaret Kennedy
After Hitler 's victory over Austria in the Anschluss that March, MK moved her family to their holiday home at Hendre Hall in Wales, where they sought refuge intermittently throughout the war.
Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann.
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Residence Phyllis Bottome
Back in England from a Europe distraught and obsessed between Hitler and Mussolini , with Stalin waiting in the wings,PB was disturbed at finding in Londoneasy nonchalance about Hitler's anti-semitism.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Goal. Faber and Faber.
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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...
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 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 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 Rosita Forbes
This book concentrates on those of the princely states which RF had visited (the majority) and their often highly characterful as well as flamboyantly wealthy rulers. Relying mostly on her own experience, with some digressions...

Timeline

December 1943: The first electronic decryption device, the...

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December 1943

The first electronic decryption device, the Colossus, was operational in prototype. By 5 February 1944 it was in use at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park in England to decipher coded German...

20 July 1944: High-ranking German officers made an unsuccessful...

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20 July 1944

High-ranking German officers made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hitler at his headquarters.

25 August 1944: Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation....

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25 August 1944

Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation. With the Allied advance approaching, Parisians mounted an uprising; a German general disobeyed Hitler 's order to destroy the city; and General de Gaulle ensured that the first troops...

30 April 1945: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide...

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30 April 1945

Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide as Russian troops captured the Reichstag in Berlin.

20 November 1945 - 1 October 1946: The first set of Nuremberg trials, called...

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20 November 1945 - 1 October 1946

The first set of Nuremberg trials, called the Trial of the Major War Criminals, took place before the International Military Tribunal.

9 December 1946 - 20 August 1947: The second major set of Nuremberg trials...

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9 December 1946 - 20 August 1947

The second major set of Nuremberg trials was held, the Doctors' Trial.

29 July 1948: The BBC broadcast a television programme...

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29 July 1948

The BBC broadcast a television programme on the opening of the Olympic Games from Wembley Stadium in still visibly bomb-damaged London. This was the first Olympics to be televised.

18 October 1977: Three imprisoned members of the West German,...

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18 October 1977

Three imprisoned members of the West German, left-wing urban guerilla or terrorist group known as the Red Army Faction or the Baader-Meinhof Gang committed suicide in Stammheim prison near Stuttgart.

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