The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis
A History of Collaboration
- Published: 30 January 2025
- ISBN: 9781802061093
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 704
Stephan Malinowski's brilliant book strikes a balance between the forensic analysis of individual behaviour and a new understanding of how the toxic political culture of a defeated monarchy helped to disrupt democracy in Germany
Christopher Clark
With his great book The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis, Stephan Malinowski has achieved a masterpiece of historical enlightenment
John Röhl
A groundbreaking book... Malinowski tells a large audience how members of the monarchical family became Hitler's stirrup holders
Lothar Müller, Süddeutsche Zeitung
As Stephan Malinowski shows… there can be no doubt that the Hohenzollerns broadly ‘collaborated’ with the Nazi regime
Brendan Simms, The FT
A highly detailed and scrupulously researched book... Malinowksi’s work is a near-masterpiece, relating a story not synthesised in this way before, and about which any number of self-serving myths exist... (he) presents a devastating case why, with regards to their conduct during the Third Reich, the Hohenzollerns were the authors of their own misfortune
Simon Heffer, The Telegraph
A landmark study
Samuel Rubinstein, Englesberg Ideas
Brilliant… at its heart is a detailed investigation of the actions of the former ruling family between 1918 and the consolidation of Nazi power in the 1930s. In places, it reads like a historical novel… [in this] deeply researched and well-written book, Malinowski makes a convincing case that the Hohenzollern family played an important role in the destruction of democracy in Germany, and remained supportive of the regime well into the Second World War…. There is every reason to believe that Malinowski’s fine book has settled the question of Hohenzollern compensation once and for all
Robert Gerwarth, Literary Review
Formidably learned… impressive
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Book of the Week
"compelling… their later attempts to depict themselves as the last hope of principled resistance is… ‘a final flickering of their impressive talent for creating self-serving legends’. Anyone reading this important book will agree
Alexander Larman, Spectator
This work is substantial in every sense of the word and one that historians will find most fascinating... a thoroughly researched book
Hugo Vickers, The Oldie
The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis is a deeply informative book... meticulously researched, brilliantly written and passionately argued [which] vividly illustrates the indispensable role of history
Ian Hughes, The Irish Times
The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis offers a clear-eyed assessment of aristocratic self-interest leading up to and during the Nazi era... Malinowski writes with verve and colour, bringing the period to life... A dense and enormously rich account for anyone keen to read deeply into German and Nazi history
Frieda Klotz, Sunday Independent