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Go-Betweens for Hitler
Karina Urbach
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This is the untold story of how some of Germany's top aristocrats contributed to Hitler's secret diplomacy during the Third Reich, providing a direct line to their influential contacts and relations across Europe -- especially in Britain, where their contacts included the press baron and Daily Mail owner Lord Rothermere and the future King Edward VIII. Using previously unexplored sources from Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and the USA, Karina Urbach unravels the story of top-level go-betweens such as the Duke of Coburg, grandson of Queen Victoria, and the seductive Stephanie von Hohenlohe, who rose from ... Read more
This is the untold story of how some of Germany's top aristocrats contributed to Hitler's secret diplomacy during the Third Reich, providing a direct line to their influential contacts and relations across Europe -- especially in Britain, where their contacts included the press baron and Daily Mail owner Lord Rothermere and the future King Edward VIII. Using previously unexplored sources from Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and the USA, Karina Urbach unravels the story of top-level go-betweens such as the Duke of Coburg, grandson of Queen Victoria, and the seductive Stephanie von Hohenlohe, who rose from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198703679
SKU
V9780198703679
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About Karina Urbach
Karina Urbach is a Longterm Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She has published several books on nineteenth and twentieth-century history, including Bismarck's Favourite Englishman: Lord Odo Russell's Mission to Berlin (I.B.Tauris, 2000) and Secret Intelligence in the European States System, 1918-1989 (Stanford University Press, 2013), co-edited with Jonathan Haslam. She has also contributed to several British and ... Read more
Reviews for Go-Betweens for Hitler
A fascinating page-turner about Hitler's secret diplomacy in the 1930s, which was intended to secure British amity and then neutrality when he led Germany to war ... Urbach combed her way through archives across Europe to construct this image of a decaying aristocracy using their connections in the cultivation of appeasers in Britain. They were not without influence.
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