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Royals and the Reich : the Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 PastConclusion: 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.