04 Trashy Breakups: Obsession | Unity Mitford and Adolph Hitler
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Following up on her Mitford Sister story from Sunday, Alicia takes us into the odd fascination - and possible romance - of another Mitford Sister. Unity Mitford fell under the sway of Nazi ideology as a teen in her repressive household, and made herself a mover and shaker in Hitler's Germany throughout the 1930s. Spoilers: It all comes to a bad end.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to your midweek trashy divorces, trashy breakups edition. My name is Stacey. |
| 0:17.1 | Hey, friends. I'm Alicia. Welcome. Thanks for joining us today for a little bit of trashy breakups. |
| 0:23.0 | And a bit of a follow-up from Sunday's episode. |
| 0:26.1 | With all of our Mitford heads, is that what you called them? |
| 0:28.3 | Mitford heads, yes. |
| 0:29.7 | People who just love the 20th century sibling set. |
| 0:34.1 | Wow, there was no other place to go. |
| 0:36.1 | For today's episode, then Diana Mitford's younger sister, |
| 0:40.6 | Unity, and her trashy breakup from Adolf Hitler. And Unity was the one that her oldest sister called |
| 0:48.7 | Knit. Is that correct? Okay. Yeah. Excellent. The thing with Unity is she's obsessed. |
| 0:55.0 | We're using the song Obsession by Anna Motion today is our theme because, wow. |
| 1:01.0 | Unity is obsessed with Hitler to the point of her own destruction. |
| 1:06.1 | But this story also includes Amago, birth order, as well as the backdrop of so many historical events. |
| 1:14.8 | Story has everything. Let's get into it. |
| 1:17.8 | This podcast really goes places I would not have pegged. |
| 1:21.5 | Let's cover Hitler's Girlfriend. |
| 1:23.6 | Maybe girlfriend, maybe not. |
| 1:25.4 | That's the thing. |
| 1:26.6 | Historians, biographers, never really know how far |
| 1:29.9 | it goes, but it is a story of some kind of trashy love obsession. Unity Mitford, when you know about |
| 1:37.1 | her, you will be surprised at how many places she is mentioned. One of the most surprising things |
| 1:43.9 | that caught me was at Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote. |
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