The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis - A History of Collaboration

Stephan Malinowski''s German 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

Product details

• Authors: Stephan Malinowski
• Assisted by: Jefferson Chase (Translation)
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9780241596180
• ISBN: 978-0-241-59618-0
• No. of pages: 704
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 45 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Germany, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, Far-right political ideologies and movements, 1933–1945 (National Socialist period), Political structure and processes, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General