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Stephan Malinowski teaches Modern European History at the University of Edinburgh. Born and raised in Berlin, he has taught at universities in Germany, France, Italy, the United States, and Ireland. His work is focuses on 20th century French, German, and colonial history. He is one of Germany's leading experts on the history of the German nobility in the 20th century.
A compelling and sobering dissection of the misalliance between the German nobility and the Nazis. * Paul Lay, The Times * [A] weightily fascinating book * Julian Evans, The Telegraph * Nazis and Nobles is not merely a translation of the prize-winning German original. It also includes incorporates many new sources. Malinowski looks at his subjects through an anthropological eye, showing them as great masters at self-portrayal. He provides fascinating biographical sketches of renegades too. * Karina Urbach, Literary Review * Stephan Malinowski shows in his award-winning German-language title (now translated into English), the success of Hitler's power grab was also highly reliant on the actions (and often inaction) of influential members of Germany's aristocracy. * BBC History Magazine * The complex question of the German aristocracy's relationship with the Nazis is at the heart of Stephan Malinowski's brilliant book, Nazis and Nobles [... ] Malinowski has provided the best available analysis of the political radicalisation of Germany's nobility in the 1920s and their widespread support for the Nazis in the early 1930s. * Robert Gerwarth, The Irish Times * A timely book. * Air Mail * [Nazis and Nobles] is as enlightening as it is entertaining. Malinowski has succeeded in writing an outstanding political and cultural history of Prussia in particular, a portrait of the aristocratic elite in decline. * Ulrich Wangemann, Markische Allgemeine *
