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Terreehorst Pauline
Secrets Of A Suitcase The Countess The Nazis And Middle Europe's Lost Nobility
Secrets Of A Suitcase The Countess The Nazis And Middle Europe's Lost Nobility
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Description: When Pauline Terreehorst bid for a vintage Gucci suitcase at Sotheby's Amsterdam she had no idea what was inside. The case turned out to be full of fine dresses furs and lace with boxes of postcard albums showing grand castles and churches in Austria France England and Scotland. The curious correspondence revolved around Austrian philanthropist Countess Margarethe Szapary and her daughter. These unexpected family treasures are a gateway to a lost world: social cultural and political life as the Szaparys knew it vanished in twentieth - century Europe's great upheavals. Borders were redrawn old cities received new names communities changed loyalties - - and Central Europe's cosmopolitan royalist aristocrats had to decide whether to become Germans under Nazi rule. What did Margarethe choose when her new neighbour Hermann Goring came knocking with a troubling request? What were the consequences for her and her children? And how did the family's suitcase cross war - torn Europe to end up in Terreehorst's hands decades later?
Title: Secrets Of A Suitcase The Countess The Nazis And Middle Europe's Lost Nobility
Author(s): Terreehorst Pauline
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781911723394
Pages: 304 Pages, 16 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 1/15/2025
Category: Second World War
Description: When Pauline Terreehorst bid for a vintage Gucci suitcase at Sotheby's Amsterdam she had no idea what was inside. The case turned out to be full of fine dresses furs and lace with boxes of postcard albums showing grand castles and churches in Austria France England and Scotland. The curious correspondence revolved around Austrian philanthropist Countess Margarethe Szapary and her daughter. These unexpected family treasures are a gateway to a lost world: social cultural and political life as the Szaparys knew it vanished in twentieth - century Europe's great upheavals. Borders were redrawn old cities received new names communities changed loyalties - - and Central Europe's cosmopolitan royalist aristocrats had to decide whether to become Germans under Nazi rule. What did Margarethe choose when her new neighbour Hermann Goring came knocking with a troubling request? What were the consequences for her and her children? And how did the family's suitcase cross war - torn Europe to end up in Terreehorst's hands decades later?
Title: Secrets Of A Suitcase The Countess The Nazis And Middle Europe's Lost Nobility
Author(s): Terreehorst Pauline
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781911723394
Pages: 304 Pages, 16 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 1/15/2025
Category: Second World War