Mitford Unity

MITFORD, UNITY VALKYRIE (1914-1948) Intimate, personal friend of Adolf Hitler, and the daughter of Lord Redesdale. A British subject, she shot herself in the English Garden outside the Bavarian Interior Ministry on the day England declared war on Germany. Before shooting herself in the right temple with a small automatic pistol, she left a large envelope containing a Nazi Party badge, a signed photo of Hitler with a personal dedication, and a letter to Hitler with Adolf Wagner the Gauleiter of Munich.

Although critically injured she lived for almost ten years as a brain- damaged invalid before dying from her wounds.On April 16,1940, she was sent back to England in a special railway carriage via Switzerland. Back in England she was subsequently operated on but nothing more was heard of Unity Valkyrie Mitford till the end of the war. She died on May 19, 1948, never having fully recovered from the wound. She is buried in the graveyard of St.Mary's Church in the village of Swinbrook. Unity's sister, Diana, married Brian Guiness of the Irish brewing family. When later they divorced, Diana studied fascism and joined the British Union of Fascists. There she met and married its leader, Sir Oswold Mosley.

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