Title:
Hitler's girl : the British aristocracy and the Third Reich on the eve of WWII / Lauren Young.
ISBN:
9780062936738
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
©2022
Physical Description:
229 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue -- German fascism crosses the English Channel -- More dangerous than the Blackshirts: secret right-wing movements in Britain -- A short history of the long history of British anti-semitism -- The debutante Nazi -- "Sweet Dr. Goebbels": fascist friendships -- Whose side? The other story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - The Wolkoff affair -- Hitler's girl -- Afterword: Hitler's child?
Summary:
"Hitler's Girl is a groundbreaking history that reveals how, in the 1930s, authoritarianism almost took hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany. Drawing on recently declassified intelligence files, Lauren Young details how sympathy for the Nazi cause pervaded the British aristocracy, with significant factions of the upper class actively and methodically pursuing a pro-German agenda. She discloses how these aristocrats formed a murky Fifth Column to Nazi Germany, which depended on their complacency and complicity to shake England's proud and long-standing democratic tradition"--Dust jacket flap.
This alternative history of 1930s Britain examines how fascist sympathizers in the aristocracy nearly helped authoritarianism take hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany, through secret organizations like the Right Club.
OCLC Number:
on1339099560
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