Susan RonaldHitler's Aristocrats
The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis, 1923-1941
Born and raised in the United States, SUSAN RONALD is a British-American biographer and historian of more than half a dozen books, including Conde Nast, The Ambassador, A Dangerous Woman, Hitler's Art Thief, and Heretic Queen. She lives in rural England with her writer husband.
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
