Comments on: Questions for Jonathan Petropoulos http://blog.oup.com/2006/05/questions_for_j/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ragnar Kristensen http://blog.oup.com/2006/05/questions_for_j/comment-page-1/#comment-146374 Ragnar Kristensen Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:51:56 +0000 http://216.110.190.15/2006/05/questions_for_jonathan_petropoulos/#comment-146374 Sirs. (Terribly sorry, nut mein Deutsch ist leider zu schlecht!): Could you kindly give me an e-mail adress to Mr. Rainer von Hessen (if he is, as I hope) still alive? I'm a Norwesgian journalist inerested in a couple of aspects concerning the House of Hessen. Sincerely, R.Kristensen. Sirs.
(Terribly sorry, nut mein Deutsch ist leider zu schlecht!):

Could you kindly give me an e-mail adress to Mr. Rainer von Hessen (if he is, as I hope) still alive?

I’m a Norwesgian journalist inerested in a couple of aspects concerning the House of Hessen.

Sincerely,
R.Kristensen.

]]> By: John http://blog.oup.com/2006/05/questions_for_j/comment-page-1/#comment-103331 John Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:01:42 +0000 http://216.110.190.15/2006/05/questions_for_jonathan_petropoulos/#comment-103331 I haven't read your book. Do you examine the reasons for the aristocracy supporting Hitler and the Nazi party? As I understand it, their tacit approval of his actions was largely precipitated by Hitler's promise (either explicit or implicit) to protect their interests in a time when those interests were threatened by the post-WWI socialist/Communist fervor. For example, the landed gentry in Ost-Preusen were allowed to retain their substantial land holdings. Comments? I haven’t read your book. Do you examine the reasons for the aristocracy supporting Hitler and the Nazi party? As I understand it, their tacit approval of his actions was largely precipitated by Hitler’s promise (either explicit or implicit) to protect their interests in a time when those interests were threatened by the post-WWI socialist/Communist fervor. For example, the landed gentry in Ost-Preusen were allowed to retain their substantial land holdings. Comments?

]]> By: The Editrix http://blog.oup.com/2006/05/questions_for_j/comment-page-1/#comment-218 The Editrix Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:34:05 +0000 http://216.110.190.15/2006/05/questions_for_jonathan_petropoulos/#comment-218 For heaven's sake, German aristocracy was (and is) no monolithic block. There used to be (and to some families there still is, socially) a bigger gap between the higher (Hochadel) and the lower (niedriger Adel) ranks of the aristocracy than between aristocracy and the middle classes. For example, intermarriage between the two classes used to be (and for some families still is) unthinkable. The backbone of the aristocratic (if there was anything like that) resistance against Hitler were men from the Prussian "Junker" class, socially closer to landed gentry and the middle classes than to "royalty". The part of resistance against the Nazis, to which is frequently refered as "aristocratic", was not that, but a military one and a disproportional number of high-ranking officers came traditionally from aristocratic, more precisely Prussian and aristocratic families. The Hochadel, the former royal families of the German countries, were, by and large, rather sympathetic to Hitler's cause. Why that is so would be beyond the scope of a comment in a weblog. It is embarrassing that you didn't acquire a modicum of information before performing an interview like that. And it is even more embarrassing that an American should refer to a member of European royalty painstakingly as "HRH". For heaven’s sake, German aristocracy was (and is) no monolithic block.

There used to be (and to some families there still is, socially) a bigger gap between the higher (Hochadel) and the lower (niedriger Adel) ranks of the aristocracy than between aristocracy and the middle classes. For example, intermarriage between the two classes used to be (and for some families still is) unthinkable.

The backbone of the aristocratic (if there was anything like that) resistance against Hitler were men from the Prussian “Junker” class, socially closer to landed gentry and the middle classes than to “royalty”.

The part of resistance against the Nazis, to which is frequently refered as “aristocratic”, was not that, but a military one and a disproportional number of high-ranking officers came traditionally from aristocratic, more precisely Prussian and aristocratic families.

The Hochadel, the former royal families of the German countries, were, by and large, rather sympathetic to Hitler’s cause. Why that is so would be beyond the scope of a comment in a weblog.

It is embarrassing that you didn’t acquire a modicum of information before performing an interview like that.

And it is even more embarrassing that an American should refer to a member of European royalty painstakingly as “HRH”.

]]> By: Airminded http://blog.oup.com/2006/05/questions_for_j/comment-page-1/#comment-219 Airminded Mon, 15 May 2006 14:31:40 +0000 http://216.110.190.15/2006/05/questions_for_jonathan_petropoulos/#comment-219 <strong>History Carnival 31</strong> Welcome to History Carnival 31! Mr Wells celebrated Time Traveller voyaged into the distant future, but we will have the levers on our time machine set firmly in the reverse positionless chance of running into a Morlock that way. To help... History Carnival 31

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