A secret journal kept by a British woman is set to shed more light on the private life of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. One of the most evil men in history chummed up with British socialite, antisemite and fascist Unity Mitford, who became part of his inner circle. In a lovingly-written diary, Unity’s long-lost secrets reveal her star-struck youth as she sought the companionship of the Nazi Fuhrer.
In one passage of notes written in 1935, the smitten 20-year-old spoke of the moment she was finally invited to sit at Hitler’s table at his favourite restaurant in Munich. “THE MOST WONDERFUL DAY OF MY LIFE,” she wrote in capital letters in an entry in February 1935. Unity and Hitler dined together 79 times between 1935 and 1939, a tally in another of Unity’s diary entries said.
“Lunch Osteria 2.30. THE FUHRER comes 3.15 after I have finished lunch. After about 10 minutes he sends the Wirt [owner] TO ASK ME TO GO TO HIS TABLE,” Unity wrote. “I go and sit next to him while he eats his lunch and we talk. THE MOST WONDERFUL DAY OF MY LIFE. He writes on a postcard for me. After he goes, Rosa [waitress] tells me he has never invited anyone like that before.”.
Other entries reference other top nazis, including a “very gay” Nazi propaganda architect Joseph Goebbels, foreign affairs minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hitler’s aide Julius Schaub, reports the Daily Mail. The diary entries will fascinate historians, offering an interesting insight into the life of the destructive Nazi leader. They are believed to be genuine amid some trepidation after an incident in which faked Hitler diaries were printed by The Sunday Times in the 1980s.
