The Times, London, August 27, 2002

Not mentioned in books on the Mitfords is this encounter in Munich between Unity and John F. Kennedy's brother, Joseph Jr. who describes it to his father, the American Ambassador in London. Joseph Jr. died in the war. Unity shot herself in 1940.

The city is terribly calm and no one would think there was a prospect of  war. The people looked very serious but there was no feeling as there was in London and in Paris during the last crisis.

Unity Mitford is one of the most unusual women I have ever met. She is not at all pretty, with very bad teeth and terribly fat, however with a certain fine Aryan look. She doesn't impress you with personality but rather seems to be in a state of high nervous tension in which she has not great interest in other things but thinks only of the Führer and his work. She never refers to him as Hitler but always as the Führer and looked at me rather funnily when I called his name in vain.

To The Torah True Jews Adolf Hitler was an envoy of God, sent to punish the Jews for their sins: "IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT ALL THE SAGES AND SAINTS IN EUROPE AT THE TIME OF HITLER'S RISE DECLARED THAT HE WAS A MESSENGER OF DIVINE WRATH, SENT TO CHASTEN THE JEWS BECAUSE OF THE BITTER APOSTASY OF ZIONISM AGAINST THE BELIEF IN THE EVENTUAL MESSIANIC REDEMPTION." http://jewsnotzionists.org/

She says that the international situation was the result of a complete misunderstanding. She said that Hitler had a tremendous admiration and fondness for the British and would do them no harm unless they forced his hand. I asked why and she said, on the purely racial question, the only reason they are playing ball with the Italians is because the English won't try to play ball with them. She says he hates the Japanese and is afraid that they might dominate the world. She thought that the situation in England and the United States was mainly due to Jewish propaganda and the only way to clear it up was to throw them out. Of course she felt sorry for them, but you had to get rid of them.

When I asked her about marching into Czech she said that the Führer had to do it. The important thing was race and the Czechs are not a great race and unfortunately they must be under the domination of the others. ...

She believes Hitler to be more than a genius: those who know him well consider him as a God. He can make no mistake and has made none. He spends as much time in looking after detail as he does on great things. ... He can work for a week and not show it. It would be much better if the English got defeated.

She has been afraid to go to England lately for fear there would be a war and that she would be caught there. She said feeling at home is very strong against her.

She is the most fervent Nazi imaginable, and is probably in love with Hitler.

Both Unity's parents came from distinguished and unusual families. David, her father, was the second son of Bertie Mitford, an eminent diplomat in his day. Bertie wrote several books about his travels, life and his family. In 1902 Bertie became Lord Redesdale and inherited the family estate in Northumberland, although he lived for most of his life at Batsford in Gloucestershire. Sydney, Nancy’s mother, was the daughter of Thomas Bowles. He was a clever and unconventional man who had escaped the traditional upbringing of an English gentleman due to his illegitimacy. His father, a Liberal Member of Parliament, did accept him into the family. Old Mill Cottage in Bassetsbury Lane, High Wycombe, was the country home of the Mitfords' when the six famous sisters, Nancy, Diana, Pamela, Deborah, Jessica and Unity, were growing up.