Susan Ronald, acclaimed author of Hitler's Art Thief takes listeners 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…mehr
Susan Ronald, acclaimed author of Hitler's Art Thief takes listeners 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-Schillingsfürst, 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, at the cocktail parties, and on the 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.
Born and raised in the United States, Susan Ronald is a British American biographer, historian, and author of several books, including The Ambassador, Condé Nast, A Dangerous Woman, Hitler's Art Thief, and Heretic Queen. She lives in a quintessential English village with her writer husband.
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CONTENTS Dramatis Personae Author's Note Prologue PART I: THE MAGIC WEAVERS 1. Chaos 2. The "Big Lie" 3. The Alchemists 4. "Brideshead" 5. Duplicitous Émigrés 6. America and the Finance Wizards 7. The Gambler and Propagandist PART II: A TAPESTRY OF LIES 8. Hope and Renewal 9. Winds of Change 10. Charade 11. The Wounded Giant 12. Saluting Hitler 13. "His Lordship's Ambassadress" 14. "Hurrah for the Blackshirts!" 15. Corralling the Malcontents 16. Men on White Horses 17. Hitler's "Listening Posts" 18. Man of Peace 19. Party Day Propaganda PART III: JUGGERNAUT 20. Inevitability of War 21. Upping the Ante 22. Olympians and Titans 23. Fifth Columnists 24. Dashed Dreams 25. The Boiling Cauldron 26. Appeasement 27. Espionage 28. Secret Maneuvers 29. Swapping Horses Midstream PART IV: THE UNRAVELING 30. Fall from Grace 31. Last Throw of the Dice 32. The Exiles 33. The American Dimension 34. Mysteries Within an Enigma 35. "Willi" 36. Herding Cats 37. Pearl Harbor Epilogue Appendix I: Letter from Fritz Wiedemann to Lord Rothermere Appendix II: Tricycle's American Questionnaire Appendix III: HO 382/250 Princess Stephanie's Home Office File Assessed Abbreviations and Glossary Acknowledgments Notes Select Bibliography Index
CONTENTS Dramatis Personae Author's Note Prologue PART I: THE MAGIC WEAVERS 1. Chaos 2. The "Big Lie" 3. The Alchemists 4. "Brideshead" 5. Duplicitous Émigrés 6. America and the Finance Wizards 7. The Gambler and Propagandist PART II: A TAPESTRY OF LIES 8. Hope and Renewal 9. Winds of Change 10. Charade 11. The Wounded Giant 12. Saluting Hitler 13. "His Lordship's Ambassadress" 14. "Hurrah for the Blackshirts!" 15. Corralling the Malcontents 16. Men on White Horses 17. Hitler's "Listening Posts" 18. Man of Peace 19. Party Day Propaganda PART III: JUGGERNAUT 20. Inevitability of War 21. Upping the Ante 22. Olympians and Titans 23. Fifth Columnists 24. Dashed Dreams 25. The Boiling Cauldron 26. Appeasement 27. Espionage 28. Secret Maneuvers 29. Swapping Horses Midstream PART IV: THE UNRAVELING 30. Fall from Grace 31. Last Throw of the Dice 32. The Exiles 33. The American Dimension 34. Mysteries Within an Enigma 35. "Willi" 36. Herding Cats 37. Pearl Harbor Epilogue Appendix I: Letter from Fritz Wiedemann to Lord Rothermere Appendix II: Tricycle's American Questionnaire Appendix III: HO 382/250 Princess Stephanie's Home Office File Assessed Abbreviations and Glossary Acknowledgments Notes Select Bibliography Index
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