The Mail today reveals the long-lost secret diaries of ‘Hitler’s English girlfriend’.
In a global editorial coup, the leather-bound diary of aristocrat Unity Mitford reveals new insights into the dictator widely vilified as the most evil man in history, whom she adored.
Unity, one of the famous Mitford sisters, gushed about the Nazi monster in her fluid lyrics. CLICK HERE to read the incredible full diary extracts exclusively on Mail+
Decades after historians lost their diaries, their discovery by the Mail will cause a sensation around the world.
The young upper-class beauty scandalized British society by fawning over Hitler and getting closer to him than any other Briton. He confided the secrets of his extraordinary relationships to his diary during the five years before World War II.
This beautiful record has never been seen before, but now, in a world exclusive, the Mail can reveal it to the public for the first time. It will be featured in a historical series in print, on MailOnline and through exciting podcast episodes launching today, offering a treasure trove for historians.
The diaries are filled with intimate and terrifying revelations about Hitler and the Englishwoman who became his fawning confidant.
While plotting a global massacre, Hitler was said to have “behaved like a 17-year-old” around the statuesque 6ft blonde beauty.
Adolf Hitler dines with Unity Mitford. The Mail today reveals the long-lost secret diaries of ‘Hitler’s English girlfriend’

In a global editorial coup, the aristocrat’s leather-bound diary reveals new insights into the dictator widely vilified as the most evil man in history, whom she adored.

All four episodes of the Daily Mail’s new podcast, Hitler’s English Bride: The Secret Diary of Unity Mitford, are published today
Celebrated historian Lord (Andrew) Roberts said: “It is extremely rare in modern times for the diaries of a well-known figure in the Nazi movement to be discovered and published, and the Daily Mail deserves to be congratulated on this remarkable scoop.”
It has been 42 years since the infamous ‘Hitler Diaries’ debacle, when German magazine publisher Stern and his British partner The Sunday Times were tricked into publishing magazines supposedly written by the Nazi leader that were immediately exposed as audacious forgeries.
The Mail has taken every precaution to establish that the newly discovered Mitford volume is not a hoax and has commissioned meticulous proofs from renowned calligraphy, ink and paper experts to prove its authenticity.
One of the world’s leading Unity scholars, historian and biographer David Pryce-Jones, said: “I’m sure they are genuine.”
Unseen for 80 years, Unity’s diaries span from 1935 to 1939 and chronicle 139 extraordinary meetings with Hitler, whose monstrous regime murdered six million Jews in the Holocaust. The Honorable Unity Mitford, a virulent Nazi worshiper, revered the vile dictator whom she unfailingly referred to as “the Führer” or “Him” and “Him” as if he were a god.
Also starting today, an exclusive Mail podcast series explores Unity’s ideas in depth, allowing listeners to make up their own minds about his scandalous life. Over the course of four episodes, Hitler’s English Bride: The Secret Diary of the Mitford Unit delves into the chilling hatred of Jews he shared with Hitler.
So in love that she moved to Munich at age 20 to obsessively stalk the Nazi leader, she wormed her way into his twisted affections, causing Hitler’s lover Eva Braun to seethe with jealousy.
The black leather-bound diary, which measures seven and a half by four and three-quarter inches (19 cm x 12 cm), exposes for the first time that Unity was almost certainly sexually active while associating with leading Nazis in Germany. . This raises the tantalizing prospect of whether she had a sexual relationship with the Führer himself, who was 25 years her senior.
Their diaries reveal their growing passion for each other as Unity was welcomed into the Nazis’ inner circle in the crucial months before the war.
While her fellow Britons prepared for the final sacrifice, the aristocratic young woman, who was born in London but conceived in the Canadian town of Swastika, had a front-row seat in Germany.
His last diary entry is dated September 3, 1939, the day war was declared after Germany invaded Poland. Unity, 25, daughter of the noble Lord Redesdale and whose mother was a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill, was so distraught at the prospect of her homeland and her beloved Nazi Germany going to war with each other that she shot herself in the head. head. in the English Garden park in Munich. He did not manage to commit suicide, although he suffered brain damage and the bullet remained lodged in his skull. He returned to Britain, where he died in 1948, aged 33.
Only now, 86 years after he slammed his leather diary shut for the last time, can the public finally read Unity’s account of his meetings with Hitler, thanks to a scrupulous Mail investigation involving a team of journalists led by the literary editor. Sandra Parsons and managing editor Richard Kay.
In fascinating detail, the diary chronicles how she went from being an obsessed stalker of the world’s worst human being to his hypnotized confidant. And as this ground-breaking Mail series will reveal in the coming days, she didn’t seem to regret it for a moment. On February 9, 1935, when she met Hitler when he summoned her to his restaurant table, she wrote: “The most wonderful day of my life.”
All four episodes of Hitler’s English Bride: The Secret Diary of Unity Mitford are available now.