Adolf Hitler

Not only were SJ 's books banned at an early point in Hitler 's regime; she was also named in the Gestapo's Black Book of about 1940 for her anti-Nazi activities before and during the war.

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...

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...

AWE was gathering signatures for a letter to Edvard Benes , President of Czechoslovakia, about Chamberlain 's betrayal of Czech democracy in face of the threat from Hitler .

In the postwar years GE seems also to have grown somewhat disillusioned with British politics in general. During the General Strike (which began on 3 May 1926) she wrote in her diary, I am convinced...

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...

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...

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...

It was something of a coup for RF in June 1933 to interview Hitler , who had come to power on the crest of a new generation's resentment. He spoke to her of his...

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...

RF had been patriotically outraged at the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 (which was presented as saving the country from British imperialism). Visiting Germany in 1937, when she found most young...

HW wrote that the fudging of national relations with Hitler at the Munich crisis poisoned me body and spirit. After Poland fell to the Nazis (who took Warsaw on 27 September 1939), HW sent...

WL was an early twentieth-century artist and writer: novelist, poet, playwright, periodical editor, commentator on literature and society, and above all a satirist and lampooner of many of his contemporaries. He was the leading spirit...

The BBC approached Bottome to write propaganda to help entice America into war because of the popularity of her novels in the United States. Her script uses Disney cartoon characters to depict the two...