7. Die Overbroocks

Eight years after Nordische Frau und Nordischer Glaube and nine years into the Nazi regime, a woman is again at the center of the novel Die Overbroocks, which the Princess dedicated to her son Heike. An incarnation of ”Mother Earth,” as the reader quickly learns, and at the same time an evident projection of the author herself, Irene von Werth is the daughter of an upstanding general in the Kaiser’s army. Her life is set to be spent in rounds of receptions and parties attended by the members .