Adolf Hitler

Standard Name: Hitler, Adolf

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Literary responses Josephine Tey
The play garnered high praise from contemporary theatre critics, and was immensely popular with audiences, some of whom reputedly went to see it thirty or forty times.
Gielgud, Sir John. Early Stages. Rev. ed., Falcon, 1948.
178
It brought its author fame and recognition...
Characters Annie S. Swan
This is both a religious and a political novel, which is not afraid to raise complex issues even if it does sometimes suggest simple answers. It is set almost in the present day, immediately before...
Travel Mary Stott
In 1938 MS and her husband had thought of going to Vienna on holiday, but Hitler's recent occupation of Austria decided them on Italy instead, which they toured by train. They were in Rome for...
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, 1990.
appeared in 1931-2, a time of anxiety for bankers because of instability around the world...
politics Evelyn Sharp
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...
Cultural formation Gladys Henrietta Schütze
While working for the Daily HeraldGHS developed the habit of dropping into StMartin-in-the-Fields for the peace and quiet. Thus she met the Rev. Dick Sheppard , who was one influence towards her conversion to...
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...
politics Maude Royden
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...
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, 2004, p. 240 pp.
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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...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Iris Murdoch
During her student days IM attracted innumerable admirers, women as well as men: at times it seemed that everyone was in love with her. They included the first of two men whom she loved deeply...
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...
Textual Features Jan Morris

Here                         

Hitler

 has made Oxford his British capital (as historically he intended to do), with his headquarters at  

Christ Church

 (James Morris's old college)...

Family and Intimate relationships Nancy Mitford
Unity , the next sister after Diana, developed intense Nazi sympathies during a visit to Germany in 1933. She had a crush on Hitler , whom she stalked elaborately before she succeeded in meeting him...

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.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
13
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
35

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.
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
371-2

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.
National Archives,. “National Register of Archives (NRA)”. National Archives (UK), 1995.
22 May 2003 Release, Organisation File (Anglo-German Fellowship)

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.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
6: 19 and n4
Brittain, Vera. Testament of a Peace-Lover: Letters from Vera Brittain. Editors Eden-Green, Winifred and Alan Eden-Green, Virago, 1988.
5

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.
Cross, Colin. The Fascists in Britain. Barrie and Rockliff, 1961.
159

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.
Gilpin, Sam. “Faking It”. London Review of Books, 10 Aug. 2000, p. 39.
39

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 .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
382

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.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
53

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, 14 Mar. 2008, p. 22.
22
as Anschluss (Union) was enforced between it and Germany.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
19
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
39
“March 14, 1938, Austria declares union with Germany”. Guardian Weekly, 14 Mar. 2008, p. 22.
22

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.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
19
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
40-1
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
19
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
304

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.
“World War Two: Timeline”. History on the Net: History Topics: War and Conflict.
Cohen, Susan. “Women’s History Month: Eleanor Rathbone”. Women’s History Network Blog, 25 Mar. 2010.

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.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
19
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
26

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, 1995.
266
contrary to politically orthodox views.
Rowley, Hazel. Christina Stead: A Biography. Secker and Warburg, 1995.
266 and n127

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 .
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
19
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
25
Marples, David. “Far From Quiet on the Eastern Front”. Ideas, University of Alberta, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2001, p. 6.
6
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
108

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.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
385
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
40, 65-6
Kelly, Matthew. “Now is your chance”. London Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2006, pp. 31-2.
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