From today’s Guardian review of a book about letters between the upper class Mitford sisters whose contacts with everyone from Kennedy to Hitler are documented.
If ever Hannah Arendt was right about the banality of evil it is here, in black and white:
“The Führer was heavenly, in his best mood, & very gay,” she [Unity Mitford] wrote to Diana [Mitford] in 1935. “He talked a lot about Jews, which was lovely.” She signs off “With best love and Heil Hitler! Bobo”
There is a surreal moment where there article talks about Hitler arriving (while head of state) at Diana’s apartment in London and ringing the doorbell and nobody answering it.