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Spectator letters: The modern equivalents of Unity Mitford

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4 April 2015

9:00 AM

4 April 2015

9:00 AM

Unity’s modern equivalents

Sir: I don’t understand why David Pryce-Jones is still banging on about the Mitfords (‘You are always close to me’, 28 March). Of course my great-aunt Unity was misguided and wrong to adore Adolf Hitler. She was not alone, though. In the 1930s millions of Germans and many non-Germans were equally in thrall to the new National Socialist government.

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