- Publisher: Amberley
- Year: 2023
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 468pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 240x154mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.8kg
- ISBN: 9781398117051
- Product code: 533817
Hitler's Aristocrats
The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis, 1923–1941
Susan Ronald New Hardback Illustrated
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One of Hitler’s more subtle strategies involved establishing an informal fifth column among the European aristocracy, international industrialists and political classes. Susan Reynolds recounts the way that high society individuals, including the notorious ‘Black Widow’, played a prominent role in denying war crimes and the Holocaust, while spreading Nazi propaganda designed to undermine public confidence, win the support of the elites and turn the war in Germany’s favour.
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The acclaimed author of Hitler's Art Thief takes readers into the shadowy world of the aristocrats and business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic who secretly aided Hitler and Nazi Germany.
Hitler said, 'I am convinced that propaganda is an essential means to achieve one's aims.' Enlisting Europe's aristocracy, international industrialists, and the political elite in Britain and America, Hitler spun a treacherous tale everyone wanted to believe: he was a man of peace. Central to his deception was an international high society Black Widow, Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst, whom Hitler called 'his dear princess.' She, and others, conspired for Hitler at the highest levels of the British aristocracy and spread their web to America's wealthy powerbrokers.
Hitler's aristocrats became his eyes, listening posts, and mouthpieces in the drawing rooms, cocktail parties, and weekend retreats of Europe and America. Among these 'gentlemen spies' and 'ladies of mystery' were the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Lady Nancy Astor, Charles Lindbergh, and two of the Mitford sisters. They were the trusted voices disseminating his political and cultural propaganda about the 'New Germany,' brushing aside the Nazis' atrocities. Distrustful of his own Foreign Ministry, Hitler used his aristocrats to open the right doors in Great Britain and the United States, creating a formidable fifth column within government and financial circles.
In a tale of drama and intrigue, Hitler's Aristocrats uncovers the battle between these influencers and those who heroically opposed them.
Hitler said, 'I am convinced that propaganda is an essential means to achieve one's aims.' Enlisting Europe's aristocracy, international industrialists, and the political elite in Britain and America, Hitler spun a treacherous tale everyone wanted to believe: he was a man of peace. Central to his deception was an international high society Black Widow, Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst, whom Hitler called 'his dear princess.' She, and others, conspired for Hitler at the highest levels of the British aristocracy and spread their web to America's wealthy powerbrokers.
Hitler's aristocrats became his eyes, listening posts, and mouthpieces in the drawing rooms, cocktail parties, and weekend retreats of Europe and America. Among these 'gentlemen spies' and 'ladies of mystery' were the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Lady Nancy Astor, Charles Lindbergh, and two of the Mitford sisters. They were the trusted voices disseminating his political and cultural propaganda about the 'New Germany,' brushing aside the Nazis' atrocities. Distrustful of his own Foreign Ministry, Hitler used his aristocrats to open the right doors in Great Britain and the United States, creating a formidable fifth column within government and financial circles.
In a tale of drama and intrigue, Hitler's Aristocrats uncovers the battle between these influencers and those who heroically opposed them.
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One of Hitler’s more subtle strategies involved establishing an informal fifth column among the European aristocracy, international industrialists and political classes. Susan Reynolds recounts the way that high society individuals, including the notorious ‘Black Widow’, played a prominent role in denying war crimes and the Holocaust, while spreading Nazi propaganda designed to undermine public confidence, win the support of the elites and turn the war in Germany’s favour.
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