Adolf Hitler

Standard Name: Hitler, Adolf

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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...
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...
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 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...
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
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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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.
316
Textual Production Wyndham Lewis
WL published two so-called peace pamphlets, Left Wings Over Europe and Count Your Dead: They Are Alive!, expressing his continued admiration for Hitler and fascism.
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research.
316
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
Author summary Wyndham Lewis
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Cecily Mackworth
CM was in Berlin when fire was set to the Reichstag or parliament on 27 February 1933. This caused political panic and gains for the young Adolf Hitler . It was understood that the Nazis
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.
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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...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Nancy Mitford
Unity , the next sister after Diana, developed intense Nazi sympathies during a visit to Germany in 1933. She had a crush on Hitler , whom she stalked elaborately before she succeeded in meeting him...

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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