Royals and the Reich : the Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany

1. Verfasser: Petropoulos, Jonathan , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Umfang/Format: xix, 524 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • The interconnectedness of the nobility: strategies to preserve privilege through the Great War
  • The Princes Von Hessen during the Weimar Republic: tribulations, the high life, and Fascist flirtations
  • Nazi high society: making Hitler "Salonfähig" and helping the Nazis to power
  • A place in the Reich: princely careers in the Nazi state
  • Roles in an increasingly radical regime
  • Miscalculation and misfortune
  • Postwar justice: denazification and (partial) dispossession
  • Rebuilding a life: Schloss Fasanerie, financial viability, and burdens of the past
  • Understanding German princes in the twentieth century.