Adolf Hitler

Standard Name: Hitler, Adolf

Connections

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Publishing Phyllis Bottome
The BBC approached Bottome to write propaganda to help entice America into war because of the popularity of her novels in the United States. Her script uses Disney cartoon characters to depict the two...
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, 1986.
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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, 1998.
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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, 21 Aug. 1998, 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.
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When published in the...
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...
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, 1962.
258
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, 1983.
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Textual Features Elaine Feinstein
This novel is an extraordinary tour de force in taking Lawrence's patterns of thought and speech to write a refutation, through a female narrator (his protagonist herself), of his sexual theories. EF traces forwards both...
Textual Features Karen Gershon
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.
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 Cecily Mackworth
Arriving in Israel just after a Jewish terrorist attackCM 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, 1949.
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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 Una Troubridge
In her Foreword, UT promises, as if a court of law, to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Troubridge, Una. The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. Hammond, Hammond, 1961.
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She begins by sketching Hall's family history and her family...

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.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992.
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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.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
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Ascherson, Neal. “Hitler’s Teeth”. London Review of Books, 28 Nov. 2002, pp. 15-16.
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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.
Linder, Doug. “Charter of the International Military Tribunal (IMT), Indictments, Verdicts and Sentencing of Major War Figures”. Famous Trials: The Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
under Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
Linder, Doug. “Chronology”. Famous Trials: The Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949.

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.
Linder, Doug. “The Doctors Trial”. Famous Trials: The Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949: The Medical (’Nazi Doctors’) Trial (Case No. 1).
Linder, Doug. “The Subsequent Nuremberg Trials: An Overview”. Famous Trials: The Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949.
Bülow, Louis. “Joseph Mengele: The Angel of Death”. Mengele.

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.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

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.
Fromme, Claudia. “Baader-Meinhof: The truth behind the twisted myth”. Times Online, 12 Nov. 2008.

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