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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Unity Mitford

On September 3, 1939, an hour after the declaration of war, attractive 25 year-old British upper-class Hitler-worshipper, Unity Mitford, sat down on a bench in Munich’s Englischer Garden and shot herself twice in the head. She didn’t die from it. She would live out the war in a vague, childlike state at her parents’ country house in Oxfordshire.