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Adolf Hitler
Standard Name: Hitler, Adolf
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Textual Production | Karen Gershon | 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. |
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 | Beryl Bainbridge | In Young Adolf, BB
built a novel from the persistent story that Hitler
spent some time in England, living in Liverpool in 1912. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (4 November 1978): 14 Bainbridge, Beryl. Young Adolf. Duckworth. |
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 |
Textual Production | Clemence Dane | |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
Textual Features | Bernice Rubens | This novel describes a mixed marriage: even though both the partners are Jews they come from different worlds. Ruth Lazarus's family are Ostjuden from Lithuania: emotionally noisy, demonstrative, combative. Jack Millar's family were refugees... |
Textual Features | Mona Caird | |
Textual Features | Agatha Christie | Among its most fascinating contents is The Capture of Cerberus, an unpublished story dating from 1939, which includes barely disguised version of Adolf Hitler
: a curious and disturbing relic, as a reviewer called it. Sperlinger, Tom. “Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks, By John Curran”. The Independent. |
Textual Features | Romer Wilson | This novel seems like a prophecy of the Nazi
rise: Hitler
had already led the failed Beer Hall Putsch, and had written Mein Kampf during the resultant prison sentence. The protagonist, Friederich (Fritz) Storm... |
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: The business-oriented and purportedly non-political...
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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.
1935: Leni Riefenstahl directed her technically...
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1935
Leni Riefenstahl
directed her technically brilliant, politically infamous documentary film Triumph of the Will.
7 March 1936: Hitler marched into and appropriated the...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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7 April 1939
Italy under Mussolini
further pursued its expansionist policy by invading Albania.
14 August 1939: Four hundred US intellectuals signed an open...
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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...
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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,...
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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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