To make stew, you need a hare, and to establish a monarchy, you need a king. Former Crown Prince Wilhelm II’s relationship with the National Socialist movement during the 1932 German presidential election
To make stew, you need a hare, and to establish a monarchy, you need a king. Former Crown Prince Wilhelm II’s relationship with the National Socialist movement during the 1932 German presidential election

Summary/Abstract: Prince Georg Friedrich, the great-grandson of the last German Kaiser, Wilhelm II, announced in the spring of 2023 that the Hohenzollern family will not proceed with the lawsuits initiated against the German state on the grounds of compensation for confiscated assets. After 1945, the communist regime nationalized the movables and immovables, which mostly got into the Soviet occupation zone. However, in 1994, German legislature created a legal opportunity for reclaiming confiscated assets and the compensation of owners. The law excluded those from the compensation whose ancestors played a significant role under the National Socialist or communist dictatorships. In 1945, the senior head of the family was Wilhelm, the former Crown Prince; therefore it was inevitable to look into his political activity during the legal procedure. From the end of the 1920s, he openly sympathized with the National Socialist Party and their cooperation did not end even after January 1933. In this article, I examine the relationship between the former Crown Prince and the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) with special regard to the 1932 Reich presidential elections.

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