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Adolf Hitler
Standard Name: Hitler, Adolf
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Wyndham Lewis | 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. |
| Publishing | Phyllis Bottome | The BBC approached Bottome to write propaganda to help entice America into war because of the popularity of her novels in the United States. Her script uses Disney
cartoon characters to depict the two... |
| 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, 1986. 139 |
| Reception | Stella Gibbons | A copy of the German translation of the novel made by Fritz Pick
was presented to Hitler
as part of an effort to improve relations between England and Germany. Taylor, David John. “Loam and Lovechild”. Times Literary Supplement, 21 Aug. 1998, p. 27. 27 |
| Reception | Naomi Jacob | The Times Literary Supplement judged this a powerful and deftly constructed study, shot with a fine poetic quality and exhibiting a deep understanding of a troubled soul. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (18 April 1935): 256 |
| Reception | Ann Bridge | AB
arrived in Hungary in 1940 to find that two of her novels had just been translated into Magyar, and the publishers had waited until she got there to provide window displays with photographs for... |
| Residence | Elma Napier | EN
's family spent summers at the family estate of Gordonstoun, near Elgin, and winters at another estate seventeen miles away, Altyre at Forres. The family's third estate, Dallas, or Torchastle... |
| Residence | Margaret Kennedy | After Hitler
's victory over Austria in the Anschluss that March, MK
moved her family to their holiday home at Hendre Hall in Wales, where they sought refuge intermittently throughout the war. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 141 |
| Residence | Phyllis Bottome | |
| Textual Features | Romer Wilson | This novel seems like a prophecy of the Nazi
rise: Hitler
had already led the failed Beer Hall Putsch, and had written Mein Kampf during the resultant prison sentence. The protagonist, Friederich (Fritz) Storm... |
| Textual Features | Jennifer Johnston | Johnston goes on to represent the gulf dividing old from young and class from class by telling her story in several voices: Minnie's stream of consciousness, that of her uncle (Money draining away. Wastepaper... |
| Textual Features | Isak Dinesen | Here Mr Pennhallow represents Hitler
, a figure of masculine oppression. He is a trafficker in prostitutes, whom he regards with disgust and hatred. The deepest sunk creature refuses to drink from the cup out... |
| Textual Features | Kate O'Brien | The novel centres on an actual historical character, Ana, Princess of Eboli, also known as Ana de Mendoza
(familiar to admirers of Verdi
's opera Don Carlo as Princess Eboli), a Spanish great lady of... |
| Textual Features | Bernice Rubens | This novel describes a mixed marriage: even though both the partners are Jews they come from different worlds. Ruth Lazarus's family are Ostjuden from Lithuania: emotionally noisy, demonstrative, combative. Jack Millar's family were refugees... |
| Textual Features | Elaine Feinstein | This novel is an extraordinary tour de force in taking Lawrence's patterns of thought and speech to write a refutation, through a female narrator (his protagonist herself), of his sexual theories. EF
traces forwards both... |
Timeline
December 1943: The first electronic decryption device, the...
Building item
December 1943
The first electronic decryption device, the Colossus, was operational in prototype. By 5 February 1944 it was in use at the Government Code and Cypher School
at Bletchley Park in England to decipher coded German...
20 July 1944: High-ranking German officers made an unsuccessful...
National or international item
20 July 1944
High-ranking German officers made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hitler
at his headquarters.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
183
Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992.
151
25 August 1944: Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation....
National or international item
25 August 1944
Paris was liberated from Nazi occupation. With the Allied advance approaching, Parisians mounted an uprising; a German general disobeyed Hitler
's order to destroy the city; and General de Gaulle
ensured that the first troops...
30 April 1945: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide...
National or international item
30 April 1945
Adolf Hitler
and Eva Braun
committed suicide as Russian troops captured the Reichstag in Berlin.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
223
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
527-9
Ascherson, Neal. “Hitler’s Teeth”. London Review of Books, 28 Nov. 2002, pp. 15-16.
15-16
20 November 1945 - 1 October 1946: The first set of Nuremberg trials, called...
National or international item
20 November 1945 - 1 October 1946
The first set of Nuremberg trials, called the Trial of the Major War Criminals, took place before the International Military Tribunal.
Linder, Doug. “Charter of the International Military Tribunal (IMT), Indictments, Verdicts and Sentencing of Major War Figures”. Famous Trials: The Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
under Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
Linder, Doug. “Chronology”. Famous Trials: The Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949.
9 December 1946 - 20 August 1947: The second major set of Nuremberg trials...
National or international item
9 December 1946 - 20 August 1947
The second major set of Nuremberg trials was held, the Doctors' Trial.
Linder, Doug. “The Doctors Trial”. Famous Trials: The Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949: The Medical (’Nazi Doctors’) Trial (Case No. 1).
Linder, Doug. “The Subsequent Nuremberg Trials: An Overview”. Famous Trials: The Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949.
Bülow, Louis. “Joseph Mengele: The Angel of Death”. Mengele.
29 July 1948: The BBC broadcast a television programme...
Building item
29 July 1948
The BBC
broadcast a television programme on the opening of the Olympic Games
from Wembley Stadium in still visibly bomb-damaged London. This was the first Olympics to be televised.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
380
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
18 October 1977: Three imprisoned members of the West German,...
National or international item
18 October 1977
Three imprisoned members of the West German, left-wing urban guerilla or terrorist group known as the Red Army Faction
or the Baader-Meinhof Gang
committed suicide in Stammheim prison near Stuttgart.
Fromme, Claudia. “Baader-Meinhof: The truth behind the twisted myth”. Times Online, 12 Nov. 2008.
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