Prinsessa Stephanie von Hohenlohe oli Adolf Hitlerin ja muiden natsijohtajien läheinen ystävä. Prinsessa von Hohenlohe järjesti natsipuolueelle rahoittajia ja yhteyksiä Euroopan ja Englannin ylimystön, teollisuusjohtajien ja pankkiirien keskuudesta.[1]
Prinsessa von Hohenlohe oli myös Hitlerin johtavin naisvakooja, sekä 10. kesäkuuta 1938 Hitler myönsi von Hohenlohelle palkinnoksi palveluksistaan natsipuolueen kultaisen kunniamitalin.
Prinsessan äiti oli täysjuutalainen Ludmilla Kuranda ja prinsessan isä oli täysjuutalainen Max Wiener.[2]
Muiden merkittävien juutalaisten natsirahoittajien tapaan prinsessa von Hohenlohe vapautettiin toisen maailmansodan jälkeen ilman syytteitä.
1930-luvun alussa [Hitlerin henkilökohtainen adjutantti Fritz] Wiedemann ja Stephanie [von Hohenlohe] olivat täysin omistautuneet Hitlerille ja IG Farbenin ulkomaan osastolle. He olivat ystäviä Lontoon Daily Mailin brittimiljonääri-omistajan lordi Rothermeren kanssa, joka antoi prinsessalle yhteensä viisi miljoonaa dollaria käteisenä, jolla auttaa Hitlerin valtaannousua.[3] —Charles Higham
Englanninjuutalainen natsipuolueen rahoittaja lordi Rothermere, Rothermeren työntekijä George Ward Price, tšekinjuutalainen Adolf Hitler, Hitlerin henkilökohtainen adjutantti Fritz Wiedemann (jolla oli suhde prinsessa von Hohenlohen kanssa), hollaninjuutalainen Joseph Goebbels (isän puolelta Cohnen, äidin siskon puolelta Simons), itävallanjuutalainen prinsessa Stephanie von Hohenlohe (äidin puolelta Kuranda, isän puolelta Wiener) ja saksanjuutalainen Magda Goebbels (isän puolelta Friedländer).
Hitlerin henkilökohtainen adjutantti Fritz Wiedemann ja hänen rakastajansa sekä natsipuolueen rahoittaja itävallanjuutalainen prinsessa Stephanie von Hohenlohe. Lukuisten muiden ohella von Hohenlohella oli suhde myös Walter Rothschildin kanssa.[4] Prinsessa von Hohenlohen viimeinen miesystävä oli ukrainanjuutalainen miljardööri Albert M. Greenfield (syntyjään Avrum Moishe Grunfeld).
[...] Hohenlohe oli Adolf Hitlerin läheinen ystävä ja hänen luotetuin naisvakooja. [...] Hohenlohe järjesti kuuluisan kokouksen Hitlerin ja lordi Rothermeren välillä. Hän aloitti Sudeettialueiden neuvottelut varakreivi Runcimanin ja Saksan Tšekkoslovakian aluejohtajan Konrad Henleinin välillä. Kuten muistan, näiden neuvottelujen tuloksena oli hehkuva sytytyslanka ennen maailman räjähtämistä. [...] En ehdota, että tämä viehättävä olento tulisi laittaa seisomaan lähintä seinää vasten ja ampua, koska en ole luonteeltani kostonhaluinen. Mutta Nürnbergissä olemme hirttäneet joukon hänen vanhoja ystäviään samanlaisten rikkomusten takia, ja kun otetaan huomioon hänen yhteydet korkean tason natseihin, Hohenlohe on laillinen ehdokas kenen tahansa hirttosilmukalle.[5] —Robert Ruark
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[1] Charles Higham, Trading with the Enemy: The Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949, Barnes & Noble, New York, (1983), "The Diplomat, the Major, the Princess, and the Knight", s. 189-209; John Simkin, Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Spartacus Educational, (September 1997, updated January 2020).
[2] Stephanie von Hohenlohen juutalaisesta syntyperästä ks. Martha Schad, Hitler's Spy Princess: The Extraordinary Life of Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Sutton, Gloucestershire, (2004), s. 2; Jim Wilson, Nazi Princess: Hitler, Lord Rothermere and Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, The History Press, Gloucestershire, (2011), s. 28; Higham, s. 190; Nigel Graddon, Otto Rahn and the Quest for the Holy Grail: The Amazing Life of the Real “Indiana Jones”, Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, (2008), s. 197; Neil Tweedie and Peter Day, When Rothermere urged Hitler to invade Romania, The Telegraph, (01 March 2005 • 00:01 am).
Stephanie von Hohenlohe (Stephany Richter), the daughter of Johann Sebastian Richter and Ludmilla Kuranda, a Jewish woman from Prague, was born in Vienna, on 16th September 1891. According to her half-sister, Gina Kaus, her real father was Max Wiener, a Jewish money-lender. Martha Schad, the author of Hitler's Spy Princess (2002) has pointed out: "While Richter was serving a seven-month prison sentence for embezzlement, his wife had a relationship with Wiener." [...] Princess Stephanie's attendance at the Nuremberg Rally upset Unity Mitford, as she saw Stephanie as a romantic rival. Princess Carmencita Wrede claims that Unity Mitford was very jealous of Hitler's relationship with Princess Stephanie: "She complained that Stephanie Hohenlohe was Jewish, and how she had told Hitler, Here you are, anti-Jewish yet you have a Jew around you the whole time, this Princess Hohenlohe. Hitler said nothing. She simply hated the Hohenlohe for a rusée, going to tell Lord Rothermere what Hitler was up to. I asked her why she got so upset about it and the answer was short: jealousy again." [...] Hitler was deeply impressed by Princess Stephanie but there were people in Hitler's immediate circle who resented the favours the Führer was showing her. This included Ernst Hanfstaengel who warned Hitler that Stephanie was a "professional blackmailer and a full-blooded Jewess". Hitler promised Hanfstaengel he would have the princess' family history researched. Hitler later told Hanfstaengel that the Gestapo had investigated her background thoroughly and had found the allegations that she was Jewish totally unfounded. [...] Jan Masryk, the Czech ambassador in London, wrote to his government in Prague on 22nd July: "If there is any decency left in this world, then there will be a big scandal when it is revealed what part was played in Wiedemann's visit by Steffi Hohenlohe, née Richter. This world-renowned secret agent, spy and confidence trickster, who is wholly Jewish, today provides the focus of Hitler's propaganda in London." [...] At the end of 1938 Adolf Hitler began to turn against Princess Stephanie. Officially it was because he had discovered that she was Jewish. However, he had in fact known about this for at least three years. Hitler told Fritz Wiedemann that he should break off all contact with her. Leni Riefenstahl suggested that Wiedemann's "relationship with Hitler became more distant because of his half-Jewish girlfriend." However, we know from other sources that Hitler had known she was Jewish since 1934. —John Simkin, Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Spartacus Educational, (September 1997, updated January 2020), lainaa, Schad, s. 2, 35; Wilson, s. 132; David Pryce-Jones, Unity Mitford: A Quest, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, (1976), s. 228.
Princess Stephanie admitted that they were physically intimate but they were never lovers. She claimed this was because Hitler was homosexual. —John Simkin, Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Spartacus Educational, (September 1997, updated January 2020), lainaa, Stephanie von Hohenlohe, unpublished memoirs (c. 1950s); Hitler flirted with her [Stephanie von Hohenlohe] and touched her hair; she had always wondered if he was a homosexual and was delighted to discover that he was attracted to her. —Charles Higham, s. 191
[3] Higham, s. 190.
[4] Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe decided to move to London and resumed her relationship with Lord Rothermere. She also began intimate relationships with several members of the aristocracy. This included Philip Henry Kerr (Lord Lothian), Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild and Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster. [...] In August 1938 French intelligence, the Deuxième Bureau, told MI6 that it was almost certain that Princess Stephanie was an important German agent. According to MI5 the list of people she had been associating with over the last few years included the Duke of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, Prince George, Duke of Kent, Lady Ethel Snowden, Philip Henry Kerr (Lord Lothian), Geoffrey Dawson, Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, Ronald Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket, Lady Maud Cunard and Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild. —John Simkin, Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Spartacus Educational, (September 1997, updated January 2020), lainaa, Wilson, s. 139.
[5] Robert Ruark, syndicated column, (26th March, 1947), lainattu, John Simkin, Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Spartacus Educational, (September 1997, updated January 2020).
