Adolf Hitler

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...

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...

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...

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...

The trip (with another taken by Sidney in 1934) reversed the Webbs' previous opinions of Soviet communism, which they had hitherto (before rising mass unemployment and increasing de-regulation destroyed their faith in the potential improvement...

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...

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...

Another verse play, Witnesses, about the group of German officers who conspired unsuccessfully to assassinate Hitler , was performed in Manchester Cathedral but never published.

By chance House of All Nations (which has been called a mammoth study of the world of international finance) appeared in 1931-2, a time of anxiety for bankers because of instability around the world...

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

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...

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...

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...

In this narrative a fascist party in England has taken power by force, following a failed General Strike and with the help of an army of National Volunteers. Its leader, now prime minister, is called...