In the documentary, Anunciação visits the Portuguese national archives, where he finds a secret police report that details what the duke and duchess did during their stay in Lisbon and Cascais, Portugal. "But nobody really established the facts of what really was going on."ĭocumentary Previously unheard tape from BBC Archives reveals Duke of Windsor wanted Britain to appease Hitler "We all knew all these rumours about the Duke of Windsor and his sympathies to Hitler and Germany," says Portuguese journalist Paulo Anunciação. Hitler and the Third Reich had arranged safe passage for the couple, he says, from their residence in France down into the Iberian Peninsula, through Spain and into Portugal. "Not so the Duke and Duchess of Windsor." "Rationing had come in, people were hungry, people were terrified out of their wits, and they had to keep going in very, very grim circumstances," Wilson says in the film. Secret police report details the duke's relationship with purported pro-Nazi bankerĪs the war went on, millions of people suffered. "The BBC were furious, because they felt that the impartiality of the BBC would be infringed and they felt that the Nazis were using the Duke of Windsor for their own propaganda, which they were, of course," says Wilson.įour months later, in September 1939, war broke out. "Having seen so much evidence for his treachery, this was probably one of the most sensitive documents that I found in my research, and it's an indication of just how close the duke was to Hitler," he says.ĭuration 2:35 "This is extraordinary new evidence." Previously unheard tape from BBC Archives reveals Duke of Windsor wanted Britain to appease Hitler. Many thanks to you for the wonderful time that we had with you at the Obersalzberg," Andrew Lownie, author of Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, says in the film. Our trip through Germany has made a great impression on us. "It's written in German, but the translation reads, 'To the Führer and, the Duchess of Windsor and I would like to thank you sincerely. In October of that year, the duke wrote a thank you letter to Hitler after spending time with him at his mountain retreat. "This would be acutely embarrassing and unacceptable. "This would be all over the world - photographs of Wallis and Edward with Hitler," historian Jane Ridley says in the documentary.
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In 1937, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor set off on a tour of Germany, when the Nazi regime was in full control of the country. (CBC/Edward VIII: Britain’s Traitor King) A thank you letter to Hitler Wallis Simpson - the American divorcée Edward abdicated the throne to marry - was always painted as the villain of the story, but Edward VIII: Britain’s Traitor King shows how this conveniently drew attention and scrutiny away from Edward.
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