Diary of Hitler’s ‘British girlfriend’ says Goebbels bullied me for not praising Mussolini
Adolf Hitler’s “English Girlfriend” was bullied by Joseph Goebbels because she said she didn’t like Benito Mussolini, her secret diary reveals.
Unity Mitford, known as Hitler’s British girlfriend, complained to one of her sisters in a letter that she felt she was being targeted because of her views on the fascist Italian leader. The Nazi party’s chief propagandist “attacked”.
In 1936, Germany and Italy signed a military alliance, forming the Berlin-Rome axis. Subsequently, Mussolini paid a state visit to Germany in September 1937.
Mitford wrote in one of her unearthed diaries about a lunch meeting with Hitler, Goebbels and other senior officials at the Osteria Bavaria restaurant in Munich, one of Hitler’s favorite restaurants.
On Friday, September 24, she wrote: “I called Osteria and the waitress said he was coming and drove to Osteria. The Führer arrived at 2:15 pm as usual with Goebbels and sent someone to find me. , he was very sweet. Then we talked about Mussolini and everyone else attacked me and I almost cried.
Adolf Hitler allegedly used Unite Mitford to ensure the British believed he had reservations about Benito Mussolini – Fox Photos/Hulton Archive
After the luncheon, she wrote a letter to her sister Diana, who later married Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists.
“The day before the leader came to Germany, I had lunch with the Führer. The young doctor Goebbels was also present. Our scene was quite intense. Everyone except the Führer attacked me because I said I didn’t like Musso.
Mitford described how she felt “bullied” during the incident and struggled to hold back tears, but was ultimately supported by a “very lovable” Hitler.
The revelation comes after the secret diaries of the British socialite, the fourth child of nobleman, soldier and landowner Lord Redesdale, were discovered.
According to reports, Hitler allegedly used Mitford as a mouthpiece to ensure that the British believed he had reservations about Mussolini.
In other entries, Unity Mitford reveals how Hitler gave her two signed gold swastika badges – Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo
In other entries, Mitford described Hitler as “gay” and “amazing” and revealed how Hitler presented the obsessed British socialite with two signed gold Nazi badges.
Her leather-bound diaries, discovered more than 80 years later and serialized by the Daily Mail, reveal that not all of Hitler’s most senior confidants shared the same obsession with each other as Mitford and Hitler.
According to the outlet’s podcast series about the diaries, some senior Nazi officials believed Hitler might “blurt out” secrets to Mitford when they were alone together.
In a diary entry marked “Thursday, April 27,” she wrote of having tea alone with Hitler, after which he showed her “his birthday present.”
Unity Mitford goes with Hitler to Dachau concentration camp in 1938, ‘just a fun trip’ – Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo
Mitford friend Lucy, the sister of the writer Robert Byron, recalled: “Shortly after Hitler’s birthday, Unity came to see us. Together they looked at Hitler’s gifts and she described him as a gift to an admirer. “Excited” about a life-size photo of him.
The entry describes the gift as a nude portrait of Hitler, standing on a diamond with a sword raised above his head.
Mitford also wrote about a visit she and friends made to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany on April 1, before Hitler’s birthday.
After the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland in 1938, more than 11,000 Jews were sent to Dachau along with Roma travelers and political opponents of the Nazis.
By the end of the war, the death toll would exceed 32,000, a third of whom were Jews. For Mitford, Dachau was described as “just a fun tour”.
Unity Mitford wrote in her diary that “little doctor Goebbels” was meeting with Mussolini and “bullied” her at a luncheon – Bateman
When Britain declared war with Germany, Mitford was distraught and shot himself in Munich’s Englischer Garten park. Hitler reportedly paid for medical treatment after the 33-year-old attempted suicide. But she suffered a brain injury and the bullet lodged in her skull. She returned to England and died in 1948.
The “Daily Mail” stated that Mitford’s diary has been tested by experts for handwriting, ink and paper authenticity to avoid repeating the mistakes of the “Hitler Diary” in 1983. Stern magazine and the Sunday Times were duped into publishing bogus journals purportedly written by Nazi leaders.
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