Unity Mitford, in a Blackshirt uniform, and Fritz Stadelmann, adjutant to Hitler, in Berlin in 1933.

The Girl Who Loved Hitler

The diaries of Unity Mitford—the “Nazi” Mitford sister—have been discovered. They reveal the unhinged infatuation she felt toward the Führer

By Rosamund Urwin

The three youngest Mitford sisters — Unity, Jessica and Deborah — used to fantasize in their schoolroom about what they would do “when they grew up”.

Jessica, known as Decca, planned to run away and be a communist; Deborah, known as Debo, dreamed of marrying a duke; and Unity longed to go to Germany to meet Hitler. As Jessica wrote in her memoir, Hons and Rebels: “Seldom have childhood predictions materialized with greater accuracy.”