The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis - A History of Collaboration
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| Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
| Auflage | 2025 |
| Seiten | 704 |
| Format | 16,3 x 24,2 x 4,5 cm |
| Gewicht | 1219 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780241596180 |
| Bestell-Nr | 24159618EA |
__AWARDED THE GERMAN NON-FICTION PRIZE 2022__
'Malinowksi's work is a near-masterpiece, relating a story not synthesised in this way before, and about which any number of self-serving myths exist' - Simon Heffer, The Telegraph
'Stephan Malinowski's brilliant book strikes a balance between the forensic analysis of individual behaviour and a new understanding of how the toxic political culture of a defeated monarchy helped to disrupt democracy in Germany' - Christopher Clark
The shocking true story of the German monarchy's collaboration with the Nazis - already a bestseller in Germany, now in English for the first time
The disappearance of the Hohenzollern family from the history of Germany in November 1918 as the Kaiser fled into Dutch exile is one of the most startling, rapid instances of a once all-powerful royal family becoming almost overnight irrelevant and marginal. Except this is not exactly what happened.
Stephan Malinowski's Germa n bestseller is an extraordinary work of recovery. It suited both the Weimar Republic and then the Third Reich to view the Hohenzollerns with contempt, and yet the royal family's hatred of the former and approval of the latter were for millions of Germans a significant factor in their own view of their country and its government.
With forensic and often shocking detail, Malinowski shows that, far from being ridiculous, marginal figures the Hohenzollerns lay at the heart of Germany's ongoing nightmare. Despite formally losing power, the members of the royal family remained prominent, catastrophically allowing many other conservative Germans to stay distanced from the new republic and to eventually betray conservative traditions and values. Battered from both left and right, the Republic collapsed in 1933 in part because conservative forces, fearful of both Communism and Fascism, had abandoned their own principles just as much as the leading members of former royal family had , who were themselves beguiled by and fooled by Hitler.
This is an important and shocking book, as well as a devastating picture of an inadequate and trivial royal family painfully underequipped to fulfil its role.
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A highly detailed and scrupulously researched book... Malinowksi's work is a near-masterpiece, relating a story not synthesised in this way before, and about which any number of self-serving myths exist... (he) presents a devastating case why, with regards to their conduct during the Third Reich, the Hohenzollerns were the authors of their own misfortune Simon Heffer The Telegraph
