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Unity, the fourth sister, went further than Diana to justify the remark of an old family friend: "You Mitfords like dictators." She held hands with Hitler, whom she described as "sweet" as well as "the greatest man of all time." Diana spent nearly 3 1/2 years in prison during World War II for her romance with fascism. Unity shot and grievously wounded herself when her beloved England went to war with her beloved Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Power Lovers the House of Mitford | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...kind to mother and aunties with the forgiving explanation of their power-groupie behavior as "a need to link personal love to a general cause." As adolescents, Unity and her younger sister Jessica turned their rooms into political statements. Unity covered her walls with swastikas and a portrait of Hitler. Jessica decorated hers with hammers and sickles. They shouted party slogans at each other like cheerleaders for opposing teams. When the going got really hot, they wound up in a pillow fight. Jessica moved to the U.S. and stuck with the Communist Party until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Power Lovers the House of Mitford | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...Austria) and Ingrid Bergman (Sweden) helped Garbo flesh out the fantasy of the European woman. From south of the border Carmen Miranda brought her fruity headdresses, Gilbert Roland his purring machismo. Half of England, it seemed, played cricket every Sunday in Griffith Park. And with bitter thanks to Adolf Hitler, Hollywood welcomed hundreds of refugees from the Third Reich. As performers, writers, directors or technicians, they would animate and dominate Hollywood for its next 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Magic Shadows From a Melting Pot for New Americans, the Movies Offered the Ticket for Assimilation | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...mystery man was said to have lived, and uncovered two bullets and a box of medical supplies. Then, returning to the home of Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert, self-proclaimed friends of the dead man, policemen came upon a tape that featured martial music and a speech by Adolf Hitler at a rally. The pieces of the puzzle were coming together, and they suggested that the body found at Embu did indeed belong to the "Angel of Death" and the world's most hunted war criminal, Dr. Josef Mengele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches Absolutely No Doubt | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...feature common to both magazines, however, was their extreme caution in handling their respective scoops. Stung, perhaps, by the derision it drew after it fell for a hoax in publishing the so-called Hitler Diaries two years ago, Stern downplayed its pictures of the old man in Brazil. On its cover the magazine ran its standard topless beauty, and it held its press run to the usual 1.6 million copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches Absolutely No Doubt | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

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