Vases, Tea Sets, Cigars, His Own Watercolours: Nazi Toffs
Christopher Clark, 9 April 2009
As the American scholar Jonathan Petropoulos observed in his study of the princes of Hessen, if princes had constituted a profession, ‘they would have rivalled physicians as the most Nazified in the Third Reich (doctors’ membership peaked in 1937 at 43 per cent)’.