Adolf Hitler

Standard Name: Hitler, Adolf

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politics Harriet Shaw Weaver
After Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich peace agreement with Hitler on 29 September 1938, the Labour Party's continued support of the government provoked HSW to resign, with a speech criticising the party's ideology...
politics Sylvia Townsend Warner
Although there was no tradition of political involvement in either of their family backgrounds, STW and Valentine Ackland became politically active because of events in Europe. They were particularly impelled to action by the Reichstag...
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, 1944.
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He spoke to her of his...
politics Helen Waddell
HW wrote that the fudging of national relations with Hitler at the Munich crisis poisoned me body and spirit.
qtd. in
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973.
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After Poland fell to the Nazis (who took Warsaw on 27 September 1939), HW sent...
politics Rosita Forbes
RF had been patriotically outraged at the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 (which was presented as saving the country from British imperialism).
Forbes, Rosita. Appointment with Destiny. Cassell, 1946.
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Visiting Germany in 1937, when she found most young...
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 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...
politics Rosita Forbes
RF 's patriotism has been called in question, however, not so much because she spent much of the war in North America and the Caribbean, but because early in the war she chose to...
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 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 Ann Bridge
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...
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...
Author summary Wyndham Lewis
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...
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, 1998.
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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.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
386

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.
“Poland 1939”. University of San Diego: World War II Timeline: 1939.
Brittain, Vera. Testament of a Peace-Lover: Letters from Vera Brittain. Editors Eden-Green, Winifred and Alan Eden-Green, Virago, 1988.
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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.
Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin, 1974.
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15 September 1940: This date later became unofficially known...

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15 September 1940

This date later became unofficially known as Battle of Britain day: a massive Luftwaffe raid intended for the final defeat of the RAF was successfully countered with huge losses of German planes.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
101
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
387
Figes, Eva. Little Eden. Faber and Faber, 1978.
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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.
Hattersley, Roy. “Why Hess dropped in”. Guardian Weekly, 3–9 Apr. 2003, p. 19.
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Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
173

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.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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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.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
388
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
235-6

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.
Dunmore, Helen. The Siege. Quality Paperbacks Direct, 2001.
prelims

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 .
Boyd, William. “The Secret Persuaders”. The Guardian, 19 Aug. 2006, pp. Weekend 26 - 31.
Weekend 26, 29

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.
Mazower, Mark. “One of Hitler’s Inflatables”. London Review of Books, 20 Jan. 2000, pp. 30-1.
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March 1942: The German Nazi Party banned Jews from buying...

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March 1942

The GermanNazi Party banned Jews from buying flowers.
Powers, Thomas. “’A Thousand Mosquito Bites’”. London Review of Books, 21 Sept. 2000, pp. 3-7.
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19 August 1942: German General Paulus launched his offensive...

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19 August 1942

German General Paulus launched his offensive against Stalingrad.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
111, 126-7
Waal, Thomas de. “Dun-Coloured Dust”. London Review of Books, 15 July 1999, pp. 18-19.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
228-34
Stalingrad, formerly Tsaritsyn, was renamed in 1925 to commemorate Stalin's victory. In 1961 it was renamed again, and became Volgograd.

1943: The comic book Wonder Woman was launched...

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1943

The comic book Wonder 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...

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