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1 online resource (xix, 524 pages) : illustrations |
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OUP E-Books
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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 |
| Summary |
The link between Hitler's Third Reich and European royalty has gone largely unexplored due to the secrecy surrounding royal families. Now, in Royals and the Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos uses unprecedented access to royal archives to tell the fascinating story of the Princes of Hesse and the important role they played in the Nazi regime. Princes Philipp and Christoph von Hessen-Kassel, great-grandsons of Queen Victoria of England, had been humiliated by defeat in WWI and, like much of the German aristocracy, feared the social unrest wrought by the ineffectual Weimar Republic |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-495) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Hessen, Philipp von, 1896-1980
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Hessen, Christoph von, 1901-1943.
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Hessen, Christoph von, 1901-1943 fast |
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Hessen, Philipp von, 1896-1980 fast |
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Hessen, Philipp von. swd |
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Hessen, Christoph von. swd |
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Princes -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Biography
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National socialism -- Social aspects
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY.
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National socialism -- Social aspects
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Princes
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Adel
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Germany -- History -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054594
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Germany
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Deutschland
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
142940406X |
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9781429404068 |
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0195161335 |
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9780195161335 |
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9780199724338 |
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0199724334 |
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1280532661 |
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9781280532665 |
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9786610532667 |
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6610532664 |
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