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Item Details
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ROYALS AND THE REICH
THE PRINCES VON HESSEN IN NAZI GERMANY |
| By: |
Jonathan Petropoulos |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195339274 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195339277 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 July, 2009 |
| Pages: |
524 |
| Description: |
Until recently, the link between Hitler''s Third Reich and European royalty has gone largely unexplored. Now, in Royals and the Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos uses unprecedented access to royal archives to tell the fascinating story of Queen Victoria''s German great-grandsons - and the important role they played in the Nazi regime. |
| Synopsis: |
Princes Philipp and Christoph von Hessen-Kassel, great-grandsons of Queen Victoria of England, had been humiliated by defeat in World War I and, like much of the German aristocracy, feared the social unrest wrought by the ineffectual Weimar Republic. Jonathan Petropoulos shows how the princes, lured by prominent positions in the Nazi regime and highly susceptible to nationalist appeals, became enthusiastic supporters of Hitler. Prince Philipp, son-in-law to the King of Italy, became the highest-ranking prince in the Nazi state and developed a close personal relationship with Hitler and Hermann Goering. Prince Christoph was a prominent SS officer and head of the most important intelligence agency in the Third Reich. In return, the princes made the Nazis socially acceptable to wealthy, high-society patrons. Prince Philipp even introduced Goering to Mussolini at a critical stage in the Nazi Party's development and later served as a liaison between Hitler and the Italian dictator.Permitted access to Hessen family private papers and the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, Petropoulos follows the story of the House of Hesse through to its tragic denouement-the princes' betrayal and persecution by an increasingly paranoid Hitler and prosecution and denazification by the Allies. |
| Illustrations: |
50 black and white halftones, 1 map |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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