Growing up in the German province, Prince Friedrich Christian zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1906–1983), heir to a princely house that previously ruled a small vassal principality on the territory of the German Empire, was an authoritative enough person to tell us about Hitler and his activities at the head of the Third Reich. A personal friend of the Fuhrer even before he came to power, the prince was often his interlocutor in the first years of Hitler's reign. The prince joined the NSDAP through Rudolf Hess, was a member of the SA, and then became an assistant to Dr. Joseph Goebbels in the Ministry of Propaganda. As the prince himself explains, he began writing this book in 1976 in order to: “Determine how disgusting and vile the lies against us are.” , the Germans, have been disbanding for decades, and point out who is doing it and why it is is happening... Anyone who consciously acts contrary to the eternal order of this world can only be a traitor, a scoundrel! He harms everyone else. No philosophy, religion, or mathematics can ever become stronger than the eternal ethical laws of nature!” About the author. Prince Friedrich Christian zu Schaumburg-Lippe (born 5 January 1906 in Bückeburg; died 20 September 1983 in Wasserburg am Inn) was a German aristocrat, high-ranking National Socialist functionary and author of National Socialist works. Before the Nazis came to power, he served the emerging National Socialist movement as one of the most prominent imperial speakers. From 1933 he was Joseph Goebbels' adjutant and, as a result, one of his closest collaborators in the Imperial Ministry of Public Education and Propaganda. After the end of World War II, he became widely known as a "history revisionist". Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Alexander Prinz zu Schaumburg-Lippe was born in 1906 as the fourth and youngest son of Prince Georg zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1846–1911) and Maria Anna von Sachsen-Altenburg (1864–1918) in the main city of the principality of Bückeburg and received his name in honor of Count Friedrich Christian. Orphaned at an early age, he grew up under the tutelage of his elder brother Adolf, the last reigning prince, along with his sister in the palace in Harrl. He studied law in Bonn, where the von Schaumburg princes had a family palace. Then he continued his studies in Cologne. Although objectively wealthy, he still deeply felt the decline of power and the property well-being of his family. In 1928, soon after his marriage, the 22-year-old prince, who had not yet done anything and received money for living from his brother, became close to Hitler, but he dissuaded the prince from joining the NSDAP. Finally, Friedrich Christian was accepted into the party in September 1929 and thereby became, along with his cousin Josias zu Waldeck und Purmont and the later but more popular Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia (1887–1949), one of the first members of the party from circle of the highest German nobility. Friedrich Christian was first an employee of Robert Ley, Gauleiter of Cologne-Koblenz. Together with Ley he founded the daily press of the stormtroopers; then in 1930 - a limited liability company for the production of National Socialist daily newspapers. From 1931 to 1933 he was a freelance organizer for the Dietrich und Co. company in Cologne, a rotary printing publishing house. The prince further served for the party as one of its first imperial speakers and also became an active member of the SA. Immediately after the founding of the Ministry of Propaganda on April 1, 1933, he became Goebbels' aide-de-camp and thus had constant access to one of the most powerful politicians of the German Empire. On November 1, 1934, he became an assistant in the international department of the ministry. The prince further attacked in his publications the German nobility, which at first supported National Socialism too little and instead slipped into reaction and monarchism. Goebbels noted in his diary on February 13, 1937 about his close collaborator: “These princes are accustomed to nothing not to do and only march in parades.” However, since 1943, the prince served at the front in the motorized infantry. During the reign of the National Socialists, Friedrich Christian quickly made his career and thus became not only an adviser in the Ministry of Propaganda, but also the Standartenführer of the SA in the Feldherrnhalle regiment, the head of a department at the Gauleiter headquarters foreign organization of the NSDAP, and received a gold NSDAP badge of honor from Hitler himself for his many years of service to the party. After the end of the war, the prince was interned from 1945 to 1948. In the Soviet occupation zone, his works were banned. Despite accusations of allegedly extraditing several officials of his ministry, the prince successfully passed the denazification procedure in 1950. And after the end of National Socialism, the prince remained prolific a publicist and published various books, including in the far-right publishing houses Druffel and Arndt. He never distanced himself from the National Socialist ideology and defended it until his death. His works are still popular today in far-right and neo-Nazi circles.

“I ask myself what ruler has ever enjoyed such respect, veneration, love and deification as this man in the brown shirt.”

Louis Bertrand, French journalist at the Imperial Party Congress in 1937 in Nuremberg