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Adolf Hitler
Standard Name: Hitler, Adolf
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Textual Features | Mona Caird | |
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Textual Features | Agatha Christie | Among its most fascinating contents is The Capture of Cerberus, an unpublished story dating from 1939, which includes barely disguised version of Adolf Hitler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. |
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... |
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. |
Residence | Phyllis Bottome | |
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. 141 |
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 |
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. 27 |
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. 26 |
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. 139 |
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 |
Timeline
19 September 1939: The BBC radio series It's That Man Again...
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19 September 1939
The BBC
radio series It's That Man Again began: known as, and pronounced as, ITMA, and ridiculing the alleged doings of Adolf Hitler
, it became immensely popular.
27 September 1939: Warsaw fell to Hitler's invading army after...
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27 September 1939
Warsaw fell to Hitler
's invading army after twenty days' siege and bombardment.
August 1940: A Ministry of Information pamphlet appeared...
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August 1940
A Ministry of Information
pamphlet appeared under the title Loss of Eden. A Cautionary Tale. Re-issued in 1941 more openly called If Hitler
Comes, it dealt with the possible scenario of successful Nazi
Late 1940: During heavy bombing of London by Hitler's...
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Late 1940
During heavy bombing of London by Hitler
's airforce, film-maker Sydney Box
reported anti-semitism in the British Air Ministry
, who wanted someone to make a propaganda film but won't do business with Jews.
15 September 1940: This date later became unofficially known...
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10 May 1941: Rudolf Hess, deputy to Hitler and a major...
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10 May 1941
Rudolf Hess
, deputy to Hitler
and a major influence on the development of Naziism
, arrived unexpectedly in Scotland, where he parachuted out of an aircraft.
10-11 May 1941: The House of Commons was destroyed in the...
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10-11 May 1941
The House of Commons was destroyed in the final and heaviest attack of the Blitz.
27 May 1941: The German battleship Bismarck was sunk following...
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27 May 1941
The German battleship Bismarck was sunk following a chase by British ships.
22 June 1941: Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union (named...
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22 June 1941
Hitler
's invasion of the Soviet Union (named Operation Barbarossa, and in contravention of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 23 August 1939) began with a surprise attack at dawn which destroyed a thousand Soviet planes...
29 September 1941: A secret directive issued at Berlin enunciated...
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29 September 1941
A secret directive issued at Berlin enunciated Hitler
's decision to have Leningrad wiped from the face of the earth.
27 October 1941: US President Roosevelt made a strongly pro-war...
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27 October 1941
US President Roosevelt
made a strongly pro-war speech drawing attention to Nazi
designs against South America (and therefore the USA), based partly on intelligence from BSC or British Security Coordination
.
1 February 1942: Vidkun Quisling became Minister President...
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1 February 1942
Vidkun Quisling
became Minister President of Norway; he supported Hitler
so fervently (although most Norwegians identified with the other side) that his name has come to mean a traitor.
March 1942: The German Nazi Party banned Jews from buying...
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March 1942
The GermanNazi Party
banned Jews from buying flowers.
19 August 1942: German General Paulus launched his offensive...
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19 August 1942
German General Paulus
launched his offensive against Stalingrad.
1943: The comic book Wonder Woman was launched...
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1943
The comic bookWonder Woman was launched by All-America Comics
. The comic relates the exploits of a female Superman who, wearing a swimsuit and riding astride a circus horse, hunts down Hitler
and his Nazi cohorts.
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