Adolf Hitler

Standard Name: Hitler, Adolf

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Literary Setting Jane Gardam
The time is one of hiatus: the war is over, but rationing continues and personal damage to the bereaved and the survivors is only beginning to be assessed. The future is opaque. The book opens...
Material Conditions of Writing Cecily Mackworth
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
Material Conditions of Writing Naomi Mitchison
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Storm Jameson
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Christina Stead
By chance House of All Nations (which has been called a mammoth study of the world of international finance)
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
appeared in 1931-2, a time of anxiety for bankers because of instability around the world...
Performance of text Anne Ridler
Another verse play, Witnesses, about the group of German officers who conspired unsuccessfully to assassinate Hitler , was performed in Manchester Cathedral but never published.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp.
195-6
politics Mary Agnes Hamilton
These were, however, very unhappy years for MAH politically. She hated the blindness of British governments since 1931 towards the meaning of Hitler and Hitlerism and their policy of appeasement. She also felt that the...
politics George Egerton
In the postwar years GE seems also to have grown somewhat disillusioned with British politics in general. During the General Strike (which began on 3 May 1926) she wrote in her diary, I am convinced...
politics Storm Jameson
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...
politics Storm Jameson
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...
politics Alison Uttley
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...
politics Rosita Forbes
It was something of a coup for RF in June 1933 to interview Hitler , who had come to power on the crest of a new generation's resentment.
Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell.
304
He spoke to her of his...
politics Storm Jameson
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.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research.
36: 72
politics Willa Muir
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...
politics Helen Waddell
HW wrote that the fudging of national relations with Hitler at the Munich crisis poisoned me body and spirit.
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable.
140
After Poland fell to the Nazis (who took Warsaw on 27 September 1939), HW sent...

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: Leni Riefenstahl directed her technically...

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1935

Leni Riefenstahl directed her technically brilliant, politically infamous documentary film Triumph of the Will.

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.

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,
“March 14, 1938, Austria declares union with Germany”. Guardian Weekly, p. 22.
22
as Anschluss (Union) was enforced between it and Germany.

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,
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg.
266
contrary to politically orthodox views.

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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