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Is Hitler’s love child alive in the UK today?
Nick McDermott
She became so enamoured of Adolf Hitler during her trips to Germany in the 1930s that British secret intelligence described her as “more Nazi than the Nazis”.
Unity Mitford was even once called “a perfect specimen of Aryan womanhood” by the Fuhrer himself.
The British socialite is now at the centre of astonishing new claims that she was much closer to Hitler than anyone previously imagined — possibly giving birth to his love child.
Unity Mitford was one of six well-known and often controversial sisters, who included Diana, the wife of Oswald Mosley, and Jessica, a staunch communist who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Desperately smitten with the dictator, a distraught Unity shot herself in the head with a pearl handled pistol in the English Garden in Munich when Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939.
But she survived her suicide attempt, and an article published on Thursday suggests she may have returned to her homeland to give birth to Hitler’s child.
If the theory holds true, then the Fuhrer’s son or daughter could still be living in somewhere in Britain today. Following the failed attempt to take her own life, Unity suffered serious brain damage and was returned to Britain via neutral Switzerland.
She spent the rest of her life living with her mother at the family home at Swinbrook, Oxfordshire.
But a local has now claimed that Unity, who died at the age of 33 in 1948, had years earlier given birth at her aunt’s Oxfordshire maternity home.
Martin Bright, writing in the ‘New Statesman’, says he received a phone call from a lady called Val Hann.
He wrote: “She explained that her aunt Betty Norton had run a maternity home to the gentry in Oxfordshire during the war and that Unity Mitford had been one of her clients.
Her aunt’s business, in the tiny village of Wigginton, had depended on discretion and she had told no one except her sister that Unity had had a baby. Her sister had passed the story on to her daughter Val.”
Asked who was the father of the child, Hann said: “Well, she always said it was Hitler’s.” Heading to Wigginton, Bright visited the former maternity home, at Hill View Cottage, and met a lady named Audrey Smith.
He wrote: “Audrey Smith was a little girl at the time, but by pure chance her sister (now dead, unfortunately) had worked at the home and had talked about Unity. Audrey claimed that she had seen Unity wrapped in a blanket and looking very ill. However, she insisted that she was at the home not to have a baby, but to recover from a nervous breakdown.” DAILY MAIL, LONDON
Nick McDermott
She became so enamoured of Adolf Hitler during her trips to Germany in the 1930s that British secret intelligence described her as “more Nazi than the Nazis”.
Unity Mitford was even once called “a perfect specimen of Aryan womanhood” by the Fuhrer himself.
The British socialite is now at the centre of astonishing new claims that she was much closer to Hitler than anyone previously imagined — possibly giving birth to his love child.
Unity Mitford was one of six well-known and often controversial sisters, who included Diana, the wife of Oswald Mosley, and Jessica, a staunch communist who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Desperately smitten with the dictator, a distraught Unity shot herself in the head with a pearl handled pistol in the English Garden in Munich when Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939.
But she survived her suicide attempt, and an article published on Thursday suggests she may have returned to her homeland to give birth to Hitler’s child.
If the theory holds true, then the Fuhrer’s son or daughter could still be living in somewhere in Britain today. Following the failed attempt to take her own life, Unity suffered serious brain damage and was returned to Britain via neutral Switzerland.
She spent the rest of her life living with her mother at the family home at Swinbrook, Oxfordshire.
But a local has now claimed that Unity, who died at the age of 33 in 1948, had years earlier given birth at her aunt’s Oxfordshire maternity home.
Martin Bright, writing in the ‘New Statesman’, says he received a phone call from a lady called Val Hann.
He wrote: “She explained that her aunt Betty Norton had run a maternity home to the gentry in Oxfordshire during the war and that Unity Mitford had been one of her clients.
Her aunt’s business, in the tiny village of Wigginton, had depended on discretion and she had told no one except her sister that Unity had had a baby. Her sister had passed the story on to her daughter Val.”
Asked who was the father of the child, Hann said: “Well, she always said it was Hitler’s.” Heading to Wigginton, Bright visited the former maternity home, at Hill View Cottage, and met a lady named Audrey Smith.
He wrote: “Audrey Smith was a little girl at the time, but by pure chance her sister (now dead, unfortunately) had worked at the home and had talked about Unity. Audrey claimed that she had seen Unity wrapped in a blanket and looking very ill. However, she insisted that she was at the home not to have a baby, but to recover from a nervous breakdown.” DAILY MAIL, LONDON