Like many anglophiles within the Nazi leadership, Mitford had hoped that the U.K. would soon be overtaken by a fascist revolution, where it could then become an ally in Hitler’s plans for genocidal domination of Europe.
Instead, when the two countries went to war in September 1939, a stunned Mitford wandered into a Munich park and shot herself.
She was the first of dozens in Hitler’s inner circle who would take a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. But with one major difference: Mitford missed.
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She survived the attempt with severe brain damage and Hitler quickly shuttled her back to England by way of Switzerland. Unity ultimately died of meningitis in 1948.
She also had a Communist sister called Jessica who she shared a childhood bedroom with and they literally drew a line down the middle and had half of it decorated with hammers and sickles and pictures of Lenin and the other half with swastikas and pictures of Hitler which is what I assume (probably unfairly) it’s like to have gen alpha kids.
Least reactionary Canadian town.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-nazi-from-swastika-ont-how-canadas-most-unusually-named-town-spawned-a-notorious-hitler-fangirl
Mitford tried to shoot herself when Britain entered the war and she fucked up and died later from meningitis lmfao
She also had a Communist sister called Jessica who she shared a childhood bedroom with and they literally drew a line down the middle and had half of it decorated with hammers and sickles and pictures of Lenin and the other half with swastikas and pictures of Hitler which is what I assume (probably unfairly) it’s like to have gen alpha kids.
Just read that bit, amazing.