Stephan Malinowski was born in Berlin in 1966 and has studied and taught history in Germany, France, Italy, the United States and Ireland. He is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Edinburgh. He is also the author of Nazis and Nobles- The History of a Misalliance.
An exceptionally fine piece of scholarship... a highly detailed and scrupulously researched book... Malinowksi’s work is a near-masterpiece, relating a story not synthesised in this way before, and about which any number of self-serving myths exist -- Simon Heffer * The Telegraph * Stephan Malinowski's brilliant book strikes a balance between the forensic analysis of individual behaviour and a new understanding of how the toxic political culture of a defeated monarchy helped to disrupt democracy in Germany * Christopher Clark * With his great book The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis, Stephan Malinowski has achieved a masterpiece of historical enlightenment * John Röhl * A groundbreaking book: In The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis, Stephan Malinowski tells for a large audience how members of the monarchical family became Hitler's stirrup holders -- Lothar Müller * Süddeutsche Zeitung * As Stephan Malinowski shows… there can be no doubt that the Hohenzollerns broadly ‘collaborated’ with the Nazi regime -- Brendan Simms * The FT * A landmark study -- Samuel Rubinstein * Englesberg Ideas *