Adolf Hitler

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...

NM felt that of all her works this was most shadowed by the encroaching power of Hitler ; she felt it was essential for social democrats to have strong rocks to hold to in the...

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...

By chance House of All Nations (which has been called a mammoth study of the world of international finance) appeared in 1931-2, a time of anxiety for bankers because of instability around the world...

CM was in Berlin when fire was set to the Reichstag or parliament on 27 February 1933. This caused political panic and gains for the young Adolf Hitler . It was understood that the Nazis

Another verse play, Witnesses, about the group of German officers who conspired unsuccessfully to assassinate Hitler , was performed in Manchester Cathedral but never published.

By the 1930s AU 's politics had become fervently patriotric: she was a firm supporter of Ramsay MacDonald 's National Coalition Government, elected on 26 August 1931. Over the next few years her dread of...

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...

AB was always alert to and outspoken about national and international attitudes. From a chance word spoken by a Swiss banker, she learned of Hitler 's original plan to invade Russia six weeks earlier than...

Jameson described the 1933 Labour Conference at Hastings as haunted by the ghost of German Social Democracy, in the shape usually of a young doctor or lawyer, with a pale intelligent face, and no money...

In 1935 SJ 's thoughts were turning even more sharply toward the fearful certainty of another war: in her autobiography she describes her awareness of this certainty flicker[ing] continuously, just below the horizon, a lightning...

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...

Not only were SJ 's books banned at an early point in Hitler 's regime; she was also named in the Gestapo's Black Book of about 1940 for her anti-Nazi activities before and during the war.

Nevertheless, after their experience in Budapest, where the reality of Hitler 's growing power was ubiquitous and inescapable, the Muirs retreated from politics altogether, being revolted by the lust for dominance with its political fevers...

In 1931 ES was alarmed by the economic situation (which, after a glimmer of prosperity, threatened to plunge Germany back into deprivation) but much more by the rise of Hitler ism and the young storm-troops...