Adolf Hitler

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...

AWE was gathering signatures for a letter to Edvard Benes , President of Czechoslovakia, about Chamberlain 's betrayal of Czech democracy in face of the threat from Hitler .

In June 1938 she drew up, along with seven other women, a manifesto for The League for the Protection of the Imagination of Women. The League's feminist mandate was to stimulate original work...

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...

As Nazism and Fascism grew in Europe, MR became disillusioned with the pacifist movement and with the belief that war was the absolute, unique evil. She explained, I believe now that Nazi-ism is worse...

WL was an early twentieth-century artist and writer: novelist, poet, playwright, periodical editor, commentator on literature and society, and above all a satirist and lampooner of many of his contemporaries. He was the leading spirit...

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.