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Royals and the Reich : The Princes Von Hessen in Nazi Germany.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (545 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199713196
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Royals and the ReichDDC classification:
  • 943.086/086/21
LOC classification:
  • DD247.H373.P487 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note about Nomenclature -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Interconnectedness of the Nobility: Strategies to Preserve Privilege Through the Great War -- 2 The Princes von Hessen during the Weimar Republic: Tribulations, the High Life, and Fascist Flirtations -- 3 Nazi High Society: Making Hitler "salonfähig" and Helping the Nazis to Power -- 4 A Place in the Reich: Princely Careers in the Nazi State -- 5 Roles in an Increasingly Radical Regime -- 6 Miscalculation and Misfortune -- 7 Postwar Justice: Denazification and (Partial) Dispossession -- 8 Rebuilding a Life: Schloss Fasanerie, Financial Viability, and Burdens of the Past -- Conclusion: Understanding German Princes in the Twentieth Century -- Appendix 1: High Nobility in the Nazi Party -- Appendix 2: Geneological Tree of the Princes von Hessen-Kassel in the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Princes Philipp and Christoph von Hessen-Kassel, great-grandsons of Queen Victoria of England, had been humiliated by defeat in World War I and feared the social unrest wrought by the ineffectual Weimar Republic. Petropoulos shows how the princes, lured by prominent positions in the Nazi regime and highly susceptible to nationalist appeals, became enthusiastic supporters of Hitler. 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 by the Allies.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note about Nomenclature -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Interconnectedness of the Nobility: Strategies to Preserve Privilege Through the Great War -- 2 The Princes von Hessen during the Weimar Republic: Tribulations, the High Life, and Fascist Flirtations -- 3 Nazi High Society: Making Hitler "salonfähig" and Helping the Nazis to Power -- 4 A Place in the Reich: Princely Careers in the Nazi State -- 5 Roles in an Increasingly Radical Regime -- 6 Miscalculation and Misfortune -- 7 Postwar Justice: Denazification and (Partial) Dispossession -- 8 Rebuilding a Life: Schloss Fasanerie, Financial Viability, and Burdens of the Past -- Conclusion: Understanding German Princes in the Twentieth Century -- Appendix 1: High Nobility in the Nazi Party -- Appendix 2: Geneological Tree of the Princes von Hessen-Kassel in the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Princes Philipp and Christoph von Hessen-Kassel, great-grandsons of Queen Victoria of England, had been humiliated by defeat in World War I and feared the social unrest wrought by the ineffectual Weimar Republic. Petropoulos shows how the princes, lured by prominent positions in the Nazi regime and highly susceptible to nationalist appeals, became enthusiastic supporters of Hitler. 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 by the Allies.

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