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During my recent travels, my light reading consisted of several thick books on the Mitford girls, the six daughters of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale and his wife Sydney (née Bowles).

Diana Mitford became the wife of Sir Oswald Mosley. Unity Valkyrie Mitford became Hitler’s confidante. Read more …

Published: August 8, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adolf Hitler, commemorations, Diana Mosley, Greg Johnson, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, Sir Oswald Mosley, World War II | Comments closed

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In Englischer Garten

Juleigh Howard-Hobson

Unity Mitford, November 9, 1937

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“On September 3, 1939, the day of England’s declaration of war against Germany, Unity Mitford sat down upon a bench in a Munich park and put a bullet through her temple. The suicide attempt failed . . .”1

Tall willows shade the paths which wind between
The flower beds and grassy plots where you
Often walked. You spoke of what would happen
Should Germany and England decide to
Embark on war: Read more …

Published: August 8, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, North American New Right, originals, poems | Comments closed

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Unity Mitford

Leo Yankevich

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“She learned to walk again, but never fully recovered. She was incontinent and childish.”

She had sat at the Chancellor’s feet, a rival
to Eva Braun, highborn, blue-eyed, contrary
to the reds, dykes and faggots of Bloomsbury,
armed with only Campbell’s Flowering Rifle.
Surely she’d been guilty of high treason?
(Albion is a better place today,
a heaven for the black man and the gay!)
Nevertheless, this was not the reason Read more …

Published: August 8, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Leo Yankevich, North American New Right, originals, poems | Comments closed

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Hitler’s British Girl

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How the British Constructed a New Woman’s Movement:
Julie V. Gottlieb’s Feminine Fascism

Amanda Bradley

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Julie V. Gottlieb
Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain’s Fascist Movement, 1923–45
New York: I. B. Tauris, 2003

“Feminine fascism” is a phrase that Julie V. Gottlieb uses to describe the forward-thinking, yet traditionally influenced, ideology embraced by Britain’s fascists. Their objective was not a return to the past, to a time when women were solely mothers and homemakers. Read more …