Stephan Malinowski

Shows many of the unresolved tensions of Bismarkian Germany. Divide between North and South. Between Catholic and Prussian Protestant. Among South German Catholics, the higher up the ranks of nobility the deeper the antipathy to the Nazis. Similar but not to the same extent among Catholic nobles in the Rhineland and Westphalia. Among the Northern protestant nobility general support for the Nazis and the lower down the line the the more intense the support: especially in Pommerania, Ost Preussen, and for those who hoped to gain from the Ausraumungen im Osten. Also shows how the various associations of nobles in their efforts to curry favour with Nazis evacuated the entire concept of "noble" and replaced it with mere racial purist notions.… (meer)