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In reply to the discussion: Shocking letters hidden for 76 yrs reveals Edward VIII's Abdication was orchestrated by [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)3. Well, the guy did a good thing, at the end of the day.
Eddie and Wally were fans of Hitler. Had Germany won the war, they would have been the Puppet Royalty of the British Empire.
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...In 1941, while they were holidaying in Florida, the exiled former king and his consort, now the Duke and the Duchess of Windsor, were spied upon by the FBI on the orders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. These FBI files, written in the 1940s and now released under Americas Freedom of Information Act, detailed that the Duchess might have been passing secrets to a leading Nazi with whom she was thought to have had an affair and that His Majestys Government had known for the fact for some time.
Following Edwards accession, the German embassy in London sent a cable for the personal attention of Hitler himself. It read: An alliance between Germany and Britain is for him (the King) an urgent necessity. In October 1937, the Windsors visited Nazi Germany, met Hitler at his Obersalzberg retreat (above), dined with his deputy, Rudolf Hess, and even visited a concentration camp. The camps guard towers were explained away as meat stores for the inmates. The visit was against the advice of the British government and during the visit the Duke gave full Nazi salutes.
At the outbreak of war, the duke served as a military liaison officer in Paris. Hitler made an abortive attempt to bring Edward and his wife to Nazi-sympathetic Spain, and greatly alarmed, the British establishment finally packing the duke off to the Bahamas from 1940-45. Deeply disenchanted by the society that had spun him, the Duke made his Nazi sympathies explicit, once telling a journalist that it would be a tragic thing for the world if Hitler was overthrown. In another break from his usual unassuming boyish behavior, he remarked, After the war is over and Hitler will crush the Americans. Well take over. They (the British) dont want me as their King, but Ill be back as their leader.
After the war, the duke and duchess returned to France. He died there in 1972, while the Duchess lived on until 1986....
http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/edward-and-wallis-with-hitler/
Following Edwards accession, the German embassy in London sent a cable for the personal attention of Hitler himself. It read: An alliance between Germany and Britain is for him (the King) an urgent necessity. In October 1937, the Windsors visited Nazi Germany, met Hitler at his Obersalzberg retreat (above), dined with his deputy, Rudolf Hess, and even visited a concentration camp. The camps guard towers were explained away as meat stores for the inmates. The visit was against the advice of the British government and during the visit the Duke gave full Nazi salutes.
At the outbreak of war, the duke served as a military liaison officer in Paris. Hitler made an abortive attempt to bring Edward and his wife to Nazi-sympathetic Spain, and greatly alarmed, the British establishment finally packing the duke off to the Bahamas from 1940-45. Deeply disenchanted by the society that had spun him, the Duke made his Nazi sympathies explicit, once telling a journalist that it would be a tragic thing for the world if Hitler was overthrown. In another break from his usual unassuming boyish behavior, he remarked, After the war is over and Hitler will crush the Americans. Well take over. They (the British) dont want me as their King, but Ill be back as their leader.
After the war, the duke and duchess returned to France. He died there in 1972, while the Duchess lived on until 1986....
http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/edward-and-wallis-with-hitler/
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Shocking letters hidden for 76 yrs reveals Edward VIII's Abdication was orchestrated by [View all]
snagglepuss
Apr 2012
OP
He craves Your Majesty's pardon. He has had a long journey here and miscounted... nt
eppur_se_muova
Apr 2012
#21
Thanks for the post. I always heard that it was the Nazi stuff that made the powers
patricia92243
Apr 2012
#10
he also was a terrible racist telling government officials of the wrong color persuasion
roguevalley
Apr 2012
#23
You are just spouting the spin that came with the Abdication. The Queen Mother was
snagglepuss
Apr 2012
#20
Good for Cosmo that he dumped the Nazis (even if it wasn't his #1 goal); bad he saved the monarchy
UTUSN
Apr 2012
#29
Edward VIII/David did not want to fight his German cousins. Simple.
Manifestor_of_Light
May 2012
#35