Adolf Hitler

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...

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...

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. When published in the...

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...

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...

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.

KG published The Bread of Exile, a novel with a strong autobiographical foundation, which traces the young lives of a brother and sister who come as Jewish refugee children to England from Hitler 's Germany.

The father of the central figure may have been a Jew, or conversely may have been Hitler . Behind the individual story lie powerfully rendered conflicted issues of identity and responsibility.

The time is one of hiatus: the war is over, but rationing continues and personal damage to the bereaved and the survivors is only beginning to be assessed. The future is opaque. The book opens...

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...

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. He spoke to her of his...

RF had been patriotically outraged at the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 (which was presented as saving the country from British imperialism). Visiting Germany in 1937, when she found most young...

RF 's patriotism has been called in question, however, not so much because she spent much of the war in North America and the Caribbean, but because early in the war she chose to...

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...

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. The dominant figures of Hitler and Stalin are flanked...