A Lovesick Aristocrat and the Royal Family’s Nazi-Connected Shames

Unity Mitford , a daughter of an eccentric British aristocrat, met Hitler at a restaurant in Munich in 1935 .

She was 21 , a blond with something of a resemblance to Jean Harlow , one of the great Hollywood vamps of the period.

Mitford ’s blatant performance as a führer groupie in the years leading up to the Second World War ended badly in a failed suicide attempt and a return to England .

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, both openly entranced by Hitler , was followed by an 80-year-plus effort to suppress the true extent of the royal family’s pro-German sympathies, writes Peter Bergen .

Bergen: The Windsors have engaged in controlling the published version of their history and, by doing so, seriously falsified the records of a critical part of the nation's history.

The Daily Mail has a history in the Hitler fan club.

In the 1930s the head of the family that owned the paper, Lord Rothermere, viewed Hitler as an ally and bastion against communism.

In Go-Betweens for Hitler , Urbach describes a trip to the Berghof, Hitler ’s retreat in the Bavarian mountains, in January 1937 .