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Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was a British socialite and member of the Mitford family known for her relationship with Adolf Hitler. Both in Great Britain and Germany, she was a prominent supporter of Nazism , fascism and antisemitism , and belonged to Hitler's inner circle of friends.
Hitler's British Girl is a Channel 4 documentary film about British Nazi sympathiser Unity Mitford and her relationship with Adolf Hitler.The film was made by following an investigation by journalist Martin Bright which revealed that she may have secretly given birth to Hitler's child.
The Mitford family is an aristocratic English family whose principal line had its seats at Mitford, Northumberland. Several heads of the family served as High Sheriff of Northumberland .
Hitler created a public image of a celibate man without a domestic life, dedicated entirely to his political mission and the governance of Nazi Germany. His relationship with Eva Braun, which lasted nearly 14 years, was hidden from the public and all but his inner circle. Braun biographer Heike Görtemaker notes that the couple enjoyed a normal ...
Hitler may have been romantically involved with Erna, who was reported to have been beautiful, charming, cultured and intelligent. [5] In the days following the failed Beer Hall Putsch , it was rumored that Hitler and Erna had sex while the former was hiding at a country house in Uffing .
The Hitler family comprises the relatives and ancestors of Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945), an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party, who was the dictator of Germany, holding the title Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945.
Hitler believed the nation had become weak, corrupted by dysgenics, the infusion of degenerate elements into its bloodstream. [23] The racialism and idea of competition, termed Social Darwinism in 1944, were discussed by European scientists and also in the Vienna press during the 1920s. Where Hitler picked up the ideas is uncertain.
William Mitford was born in London on 10 February 1744, into a rural gentry family. The Mitfords were of Anglo-Saxon origin in Northumberland; the Doomsday Book states that Mitford Castle belonged to Sir John Mitford in 1066, but by 1086 belonged to William Bertram, a Norman knight married to Sibylla, the only daughter and heir of the previous owner. [1]