Adolf Hitler

Standard Name: Hitler, Adolf

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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...
politics Hannah Arendt
During her first marriage, HA criticised the German women's movement for interesting itself in social, or women's issues without considering the broader political causes and consequences which made them of concern to men as well...
politics Enid Bagnold
Although she did not actively support Hitler 's rise to power in Germany, EB nevertheless admired the vigour of fascism and romanticised the power of Hitler and the Nazi regime. Her regrettable article for the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Enid Bagnold
Here EB naively publicizes her own ignorance by letting her audience know that she could read no German and had met no single person of importance, or even of the upper classes.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
139
She proceeded...
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
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.
Intertextuality and Influence Natalie Clifford Barney
Barney's translator Anna Livia describes these memoirs as a combination of war commentary, political theory, and an account of daily life in Fascist Italy. Despite NCB 's insistence that she is apolitical, her loyalties clearly...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Theodora Benson
TB 's prefatory letter has a somewhat heavy air of jokiness: abroad is perfectly grand and kind of large. If there is a riot or a coup d'état at any place I'm staying in I...
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
Education Phyllis Bottome
PB continued her studies in Alfred Adler 's Individual Psychology under the direction of Dr Leonard Seif in Munich, where she witnessed Hitler 's seizure of power.
Bottome, Phyllis. The Goal. Faber and Faber.
162-5, 207
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.
258
Textual Production Phyllis Bottome
PB edited a collection of speeches published by Penguin : Our New Order—or Hitler 's? A Selection of Speeches by Winston Churchill , the Archbishop of Canterbury , Anthony Eden , Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
197
Education Phyllis Bottome
Because PB was so interested in her French classes, her mother permitted Mellie to instruct her at their home. Despite their friendship, there was one matter on which Mellie and Phyllis could not agree—the Dreyfus
Friends, Associates Phyllis Bottome
PB 's group of Indivdual Psychologists met at Café Heck, where they often ran into Hitler , a constant visitor at the café before he came to power. Bottome remembers him as a small...
politics Phyllis Bottome
With the support of British authorities, PB used her lectures to promote her political views and to encourage Americans to support the Allies in the war against Nazi Germany. At the end of the tour...

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1883: Karl Pearson, closest disciple198n111 of...

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1883

Karl Pearson , closest disciple
Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press.
198n111
of Sir Francis Galton (who took over Galton's Eugenics Record Office in 1907), published a lecture, The Ethic of Freethought, which endorses the limitations imposed on women by childbearing.

December 1914: German anti-militarists including Rosa Luxemburg,...

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December 1914

German anti-militarists including Rosa Luxemburg , Clara Zetkin , and Karl Liebknecht founded the secret political organization called the Spartakusbund or Spartacus League.

Christmas 1914: German and Allied forces at the front lines...

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Christmas 1914

German and Allied forces at the front lines began an informal cease-fire, which lasted up to five days, in honour of the season.

February 1921: Car manufacturer Henry Ford published two...

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February 1921

Car manufacturer Henry Ford published two antisemitic essays in his company newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, about the supposed control exercised by Jews over the movie industry.

9 November 1923: A young activist, Adolf Hitler, led an attempt...

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9 November 1923

A young activist, Adolf Hitler , led an attempt to occupy the Bavarian War Ministry building in Munich; this incident became known as the Beer Hall Putsch.

1925: While serving a prison sentence at Landsberg...

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1925

While serving a prison sentence at Landsberg Castle in Munich for his part in the Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle).

1925: While serving a prison sentence at Landsberg...

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1925

While serving a prison sentence at Landsberg Castle in Munich for his part in the Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle).

1927: Josephine Ward published a fiction about...

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1927

Josephine Ward published a fiction about the early twentieth-century Italian dictator: The Shadow of Mussolini.

11 February 1929: Mussolini signed the Lateran Treaty, or Concordat...

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11 February 1929

Mussolini signed the Lateran Treaty, or Concordat with the Pope : this gave sanction to the Fascist regime in Italy, and set up the independent microstate of Vatican City in Rome.

September 1930: The German National Socialist Party (the...

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September 1930

The GermanNational Socialist Party (the Nazis) made significant gains in elections for the Reichstag .

30 January 1933: Hitler became Chancellor of Germany....

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30 January 1933

Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.

27 February 1933: A fire at the parliament building or Reichstag...

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27 February 1933

A fire at the parliament building or Reichstag in Berlin was used by Hitler to incite fears of a Communist takeover.

20 March 1933: Hitler began using Dachau, his first concentration...

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20 March 1933

Hitler began using Dachau, his first concentration camp, to imprison Communists and other political opponents.

October 1933: Hitler took Germany out of the League of...

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October 1933

Hitler took Germany out of the League of Nations , contrary to the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles (signed on 28 June 1919).

29-30 June 1934: This was Hitler's Night of the Long Knives,...

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29-30 June 1934

This was Hitler'sNight of the Long Knives, during which about 100 rivals or enemies, the left-wing element within the Nazi Party , were killed. The sinister name came from a popular Nazi song.

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