**AWARDED THE GERMAN NON-FICTION PRIZE 2022**
-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
The shocking true story of the German monarchy''s collaboration with the Nazis - already a bestseller in Germany, now in English for the first time
The disappearance of the Hohenzollern family from the history of Germany in November 1918 as the Kaiser fled into Dutch exile is one of the most startling, rapid instances of a once all-powerful royal family becoming almost overnight irrelevant and marginal. Except this is not exactly what happened.
Stephan Malinowski-s German bestseller is an extraordinary work of recovery. It suited both the Weimar Republic and then the Third Reich to view the Hohenzollerns with contempt, and yet the roy
