The self-serving delusions of the ‘Swastika Kaiser’

The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration Stephan Malinowski, translated by Jefferson Chase

Allen Lane, pp.672, 40

Whenever a new study of the Nazi regime appears, it is taken as a given that after Adolf Hitler seized power and became dictator of Germany in 1933 an egalitarian society emerged, very different to previous decadent, backward-looking generations. In this modern era, it is assumed, the concerns of the Kaiser and the German elite were at best ignored and at worst made another target of the Führer’s purges.

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Tagged20th-century german history, Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Hitler, Nazism, the Duke of Windsor, Weimar Republic

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The self-serving delusions of the ‘Swastika Kaiser’

With the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the eldest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II decided he was best off allying himself with the Nazis, and seeing what he could obtain for his family in the process

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