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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. Petropoulos shows h

Princes --- National socialism --- Nazism --- Authoritarianism --- Fascism --- Nazis --- Neo-Nazism --- Totalitarianism --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Royalty --- Courts and courtiers --- History --- Social aspects. --- Causes --- Hessen, Philipp von, --- Hessen, Christoph von, --- Von Hessen, Christoph, --- Von Hessen, Philipp, --- Philipp, --- Germany --- Third Reich, 1933-1945