Unity Mitford marries Hitler in 1937

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He wouldn't have married her in 1937, full stop. She can become his primary mistress beating her rival Eva, and that can change her fate in 1939, maybe, but odds are like Eva she has to wait for the last scene before she gets what she wants.

I've actually considered doing a Vignette about it, but for the fact it's basically a non-change.
 

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It's more plausible that Hitler could have married another English-born woman, if he wanted to bring Nordic Imperial Britain closer to Nordic Germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifred_Wagner

Unity Mitford was just one of the more stark, staring bonkers devotees of Hitler.

I think Winifred and Adolf would have had a much happier marriage. More interests in common.
 
-In 1939 once the war begins Unity is declared a traitor by the British government.

I'm pretty sure that by the law at the time a woman automatically lost her prior citizenship and gained her husband's when she married abroad. So how would it be treason for a German national, who is not a British subject, to support the Germans? Sure, 'treason' in the colloquial sense. But legally I don't think it flies.
 
I'm pretty sure that by the law at the time a woman automatically lost her prior citizenship and gained her husband's when she married abroad. So how would it be treason for a German national, who is not a British subject, to support the Germans? Sure, 'treason' in the colloquial sense. But legally I don't think it flies.
Hard to say, given that William Joyce had Irish, then American citizenship, but was still successfully convicted of treason.
 
To play Devil's Advocate, Eva committed suicide so as not to fall into Soviet hands, not quite the same sort of circumstances as Geli.
True. But my greater point was that the theory advanced in the preceding post didn't hold up outside of that coincidence.
 
Interesting. La Wik says that whether or not he was a citizen was a big legal issue in his trial and that he was hanged on the technicality that he had applied for and received a British passport and was still living under it when he started his broadcasts.
 
Interesting. La Wik says that whether or not he was a citizen was a big legal issue in his trial and that he was hanged on the technicality that he had applied for and received a British passport and was still living under it when he started his broadcasts.
Gives new meaning to hoisted by his own petard!
 
I'm pretty sure that by the law at the time a woman automatically lost her prior citizenship and gained her husband's when she married abroad. So how would it be treason for a German national, who is not a British subject, to support the Germans? Sure, 'treason' in the colloquial sense. But legally I don't think it flies.
When I wrote that Unity Mitford would be declared a traitor I meant not as an official legal indictment. What I imagine is Chamberlain or Churchill later on making a speech and declaring Unity a turncoat mainly for propaganda. If Unity Mitford survived the war somehow then it comes down to how much the British government wants to push the case. As the wife of the Fuhrer, Unity would have probably officially became a German citizen and gave up British citizenship. She probably gets treated then as just another German national. She would be denied the chance to return to the United Kingdom and regain citizenship. I seriously doubt the British would allow her to even visit her family.
 
After meeting AH in 1932, having been introduced by her sister Diana who was living with Mosley, Unity was besotted with Adolf. Having stalked him while learning German, she told several prominent Brits and a Germans that Adolf was the only man for her.

Changes which might follow a 1937 wedding?
The sisters were beautiful but scatter-brained
 

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I find it staggering to see that some people genuinely think Hitler being Hitler could be moderated by marrying a British woman.

The British government’s thinking will not be changed one iota by whoever Hitler’s wife is. His threat to the country and the strategic interests of Britain will be the same, regardless of who he marries.
 
Hitler only married the German Eva when the honeymoon dessert was to be 'cyanide pills' instead of 'wedding cake' - he held to that 'married to Germany until there was no Germany to hold; he's not going to marry Unity - it derails his image, especially since she is not German. If he were going to wed while there was time to have a family, Eva, being the only girl around who fit his image of the perfect German woman, gets him by default. He was very image conscious, so Unity might get a high-ranking Nazi (a la Magda Goebbels), but she and Magda will compete to be official hostess for Hitler (with Madga winning because - she's German by birth.

You might have a better case for Unity to become Goebbels' mistress and Hitler forcing Magda to 'go along'......
 
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