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From: "Gary Boivin" <>
Subject: Re: Swastika, Ontario ([Q-R] Unity Mitford)
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:53:58 -0600
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If you've ever driven to Swastika, Ontario, you would have to
make sure you don't blink or you'll find yourself in Kirkland Lake
wondering if you missed a turnoff.

It's a nice place...
Not much there...
Nice beach.
I went swimming there last time I was there.
No blood-suckers.
Lots of speckle trout (fishing).

Guess it's so dull, they've taken to "conceiving"
to "liven" up the place (pun intended)


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Subject: [Q-R] Unity Mitford


>
> The Hon. Unity Valkyrie Mitford (August 8, 1914 - May 28, 1948), was one
of
> the noted Mitford sisters. She is said to have been conceived in the
mining
> town of Swastika, Ontario and born in London, England, a daughter of the
2nd
> Baron Redesdale. She was also a cousin of Clementine Hozier, the wife of
> Winston Churchill.
> Educated at home, she eventually became a devout believer in fascism. In
> 1933, Mitford traveled to Nuremberg, Germany for a rally and met the man
she had
> become obsessed with, Adolf Hitler. She became a member of Adolf Hitler's
> entourage and a passionate though naïve supporter of National Socialism,
along
> with her sister Diana Mitford, who married the British fascist leader Sir
> Oswald Mosley.
> British SIS reports from 1936 stated that she saw a lot of Hitler whenever
he
> was in Munich and they viewed her as "more Nazi than the Nazis." The same
> report said she gave the "Hitler salute" to the British Consul General in
> Munich who immediately requested that her passport be impounded.
> When Britain declared war on Germany in September of 1939, a distraught
> Mitford sent a farewell letter to Hitler and shot herself in the head in
the
> English Garden in Munich. The suicide attempt failed and she returned to
England,
> mentally damaged. She spent the rest of her life on the island of
> Inchkenneth. Doctors had decided it was too dangerous to remove the lodged
bullet, and
> she eventually died of meningitis caused by the cerebral swelling around
it.
> Mitford was interred in the Swinbrook Churchyard, Oxfordshire, England.
> Swastika legend
> There is a legend Unity Mitford suggested to Hitler that he adopt the
> swastika as the Nazi symbol due to the place of her birthplace but this is
wholly
> unsupported. The Nazi movement was already using swastikas when Mitford
was a
> child and the symbol had been used by the far right nationalist movement
in
> Germany since before she was born.
>
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