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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815206203321

Autore

Urbach Karina

Titolo

Go-betweens for Hitler / / Karina Urbach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-100868-0

0-19-100867-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 p.)

Disciplina

940.532

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Diplomatic history

Diplomacy - History

Germany History 1933-1945

Tyskland

Storbritannien

Europa

Europe

Germany

Great Britain

Deutschland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Part II: IHitler�s Go-Betweens""""4: Approaching the Appeasers: The Duke of Coburg""; ""5: Horthy, Hitler, and Lord Rothermere: Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe""; ""6: Munich to Marbella: Prince Max Egon zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg""; ""Conclusion: Did Go-Betweens Make a Difference?""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Notes""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6""; ""conclusion""; ""Archives and Bibliography""; ""Cerman archives""; ""Printed sources/newspapers""; ""Diaries/memoirs/autobiographies""; ""Ssecondary sources""

""Picture Acknowledgements""""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

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 Steph