Betrayer's waltz : the unlikely bond between Marie Valerie of Austria and Hitler's princess-spy / Jennifer Bowers Bahney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bahney, Jennifer Bowers, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marie Valérie, Archduchess of Austria, 1868-1924.

Marie Valérie.

Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Stephanie Juliana, Prinzessin zu, 1896-1972.

Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, Stephanie Juliana.

Women spies--Germany--History--20th century.

Women spies.

Princesses--Biography.

Princesses.

History.

Germany.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 220 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Unlikely bond between Marie Valerie of Austria and Hitler's princess-spy

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]

Summary:

"Born into one of Europe's more powerful families, Archduchess Marie Valerie in 1890 wed her cousin, Franz Salvator of Tuscany. The Archduke had an affair with Stephanie Richter, which lead to an illegitimate child, a royal title of her own and a career as a double-agent in the prelude to World War II"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Verblassendes Reich/Fading Empire, 1890-1924 7

1 "She cant marry within the family again" 8

2 "Will she be a good little woman?" 16

3 "Everything is good, terribly good" 26

4 "I could only think, when a man was talking" 31

5 "Are we not the same as all other Germans?" 35

6 "We felt ourselves more deeply united on the inside" 41

7 "Antisemitism is an uncommonly diffused sickness" 50

8 "I tread the path that it is my duty to follow" 57

9 "The whole world suffered in consequence" 72

10 "There was danger in the air" 86

11 "We hope that God's mercy will give us better times" 91

12 "One could only envy her" 98

Part II Stehendes Reich/Rising Empire, 1927-1939 109

13 "She first came to our notice in 1928" 110

14 "Hitler is going to rule Germany" 121

15 "One blood demands one Reich" 127

16 "Sincere thanks for the great understanding" 137

17 "Austria will be ours" 146

18 "One of these days there will be a big scandal" 156

19 "Worse than ten thousand men" 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476668727

1476668728

OCLC:

985225988