Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Best Reading Daughters and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford. This sprightly chronicle of the madcap Mitford family (one of the six daughters was generally regarded as Hitler's girl; another became the wife of a Fascist; the author herself married a Leftist nephew of Winston Churchill) reads like an Evelyn Waugh novel, revealing a class in trouble with history and with itself...
...glowering on the left would be Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, usually described in the tabloids as Hitler's girl friend. That would explain why she is standing, as Hitler did when he was not saluting, with her hands clasped just below her midriff. Unity shot herself in 1939 under still obscure circumstances and was invalided back home to England (the author says she was despondent over the outbreak of the war, but rumors were that she had been rejected by Hitler...
Life with Farve. Having passed or flunked a Mitford quiz along these lines, the reader may find any residual curiosity about the family amply answered in Daughters and Rebels, Jessica's sprightly chronicle. Some things should be settled first. What was Hitler's reaction to Jessica's elopement with Romilly when Unity told the Fuhrer, "My sister Decca has run away to Spain with the Reds"? Hitler sank his head in his hands. "Armes Kind!"1 (poor child), he sighed. What did Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, do? He dispatched a destroyer to try to break...
Even before this and other events in his daughters' lives had given him cause, David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, second Baron Redesdale ("Farve'' to his girls), had the reputation of being a slightly gaga aristocrat. Hitler took him seriously as a Fascist sympathizer, but few others took him seriously on anything. For one thing, he had made one of his rare but passionate speeches on the subject of limiting the powers of the House of Lords. He was against it - on the grounds that the proposals struck at the foundations of Christianity. He was also pretty savage...
There is something magnificently arrogant about the way Boud and Decca extracted the last yard of mileage out of their hyphens as they joined forces-Fascist and Communist-dedicated to the destruction of aristocracy. Boud, before she met Hitler, insisted on taking her pet rat to debutante balls. With Philip Toynbee (Historian Arnold's son), Decca raided Eton College chapel and decamped with a carload of top hats...