Unearthed journals of British socialite Unity Mitford describe Germany’s fascist leader as ‘gay’ and ‘amazing’, but she ‘didn’t like Musso’

The diaries, which were lost for 80 years, reportedly chronicle 139 meetings between Adolf Hitler and Unity Mitford from 1935 to 1939.

The long-lost secret diaries of Unity Mitford, which offer unprecedented insights into her extraordinary relationship with Adolf Hitler in the years leading up to World War Two, have been revealed. The leather-bound journal,

Unity Mitford, a young upper-class beauty, had “scandalised British society by fawning over Hitler and becoming closer to him than any other Briton”.