Does Hitler Have a Secret Family Living in Britain?

THE TELEGRAPH: The newly discovered diaries of Unity Mitford reveal her obsession with the Führer – and raise questions about her stay in a maternity home

Unity Mitford was seemingly infatuated with Adolf Hitler, and documented in detail their 139 meetings between 1935-1939 | Credit: Alamy
The recent publication of Unity Mitford’s newly discovered diaries – a macabre fanzine to Adolf Hitler – has reignited speculation about the nature of the young British aristocrat’s relationship with the Nazi leader.

Spanning 1935 to 1939, they recorded Mitford’s grotesque infatuation with the man whose regime would murder six-million Jews in the Holocaust in World War Two. Her diaries, written in breathless girly style, using capitals and red ink when detailing one of her 139 meetings with Hitler, make for queasy reading.

This historical record reveals Mitford, then aged 20, to be naïve and doltishly enthralled by “the Fuhrer”, who was 25 years her senior. It exposes her as a vile anti-Semite who writes “I am a Jew-hater” and “I’m practising to kill Jews”. She describes the first day that she met Hitler as “THE MOST WONDERFUL DAY OF MY LIFE” and moons on about “Him” like some Enid Blyton character off on a jolly in Munich. “The Fuhrer was heavenly… he is an angel.” » | Anna Pasternak | Wednesday, January 22, 2025