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\"\"<\/a>British archives hiding royal family\u2019s links to anti-Semitism in 1930s, says historian<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

By JP O\u2019 Malley<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Amid row over 7-year-old Elizabath\u2019s \u2018Nazi salute,\u2019 German historian Karina Urbach says documentation on monarchy\u2019s connections to Hitler is being withheld, may well have been destroyed<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Edward, Duke of Windsor, reviewing a squad of SS with Robert Ley in October 1937. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-17964 \/ Pahl, Georg \/ CC-BY-SA)<\/p><\/div>\n

LONDON \u2014 In April 1945, code-breakers at Bletchley Park, England, intercepted the following telegram from Adolf Hitler, who was then under siege in his bunker in Berlin: \u201cThe F\u00fchrer attaches importance to the President of the Red Cross, the Duke of Coburg, on no account falling into enemy hands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Karina Urbach, a German historian, believes that whatever information Hitler shared with Carl Edward, the Duke of Coburg \u2014 who was a grandson of Queen Victoria, and a close blood relative to the current British monarchy \u2014 it was damning enough to warrant an assassination request. Coburg, though, would manage to escape such a drastic fate and eventually died in 1954 of natural causes, aged 69.<\/span><\/p>\n

Urbach has recently published \u201cGo Betweens For Hitler,\u201d a book that explores how members of the aristocratic class across Europe worked as secret negotiators for Hitler during the interwar years.<\/span><\/p>\n

The go-betweens were unofficial, invisible actors who secretly delivered messages between heads of state to ensure that off-the-record conversations could happen at the highest levels in the murky world of international relations.<\/span><\/p>\n

While research hitherto has focused on the support German aristocrats secretly provided Hitler within Germany, Urbach\u2019s book discusses an additional, international dimension to this secret diplomatic back channel, most notably from members of the British royal family.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A row of newspapers on display including a paper with a photo of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as a child giving a Nazi salute, in a shop, in London, Saturday July 18, 2015. (AP Photo\/Tim Ireland)<\/p><\/div>\n

This flirting with Nazism on the part of the royal family caused a media storm Saturday as Britain\u2019s The Sun published a cover story with the headline \u201cTheir Royal Heilnesses.\u201d The newspaper\u2019s front page photo showed the seven-year-old future Queen Elizabeth II performing a Nazi salute in a hitherto-secret 1933 family video.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 17-second video from which the still was taken, young Elizabeth is seen playing with her corgi, dancing, and also raising her right arm three times, alongside her mother, Queen Elizabeth, sister Princess Margaret, and uncle Edward VIII. Buckingham Palace announced Sunday an investigation into how the video was procured by The Sun.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sun\u2019s publication has caused immense debate in the UK. Are the pictures an outrageous invasion of privacy, or a timely reminder, in the words of one commentator, that Edward VIII, briefly Britain\u2019s king, dabbled with fascism?<\/span><\/p>\n

Is it possible that certain British historians have consistently tried to play down anti-Semitism in the British royal family during the 1930s?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEdward VIII was particularly attracted to the Nazis because of their social ideas,\u201d says Urbach, an assertion that contrasts with that of the British historian Philip Ziegler. In 2012, Ziegle published a biography of Edward VIII, who was king for six months in 1936 only to voluntarily abdicate so he could marry an American divorcee. Ziegler has written that Edward VIII was only \u201cmildly anti-Semitic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In her book, much of Urbach\u2019s narrative focuses on royal relative Carl Edward and his loyalty to the Nazi movement for nearly two decades. It would appear his ties to Hitler helped to create a widespread culture of anti-Semitism among the British monarchy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCarl Edward\u2019s British network was very useful for Hitler,\u201d the German historian explains from an University of London office in the Institute of Historical Research, where she is currently a senior fellow.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHitler was an Anglophile, and his dream [during the early 1930s] was to have an alliance with Britain,\u201d says Urbach.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more: British archives hiding royal family\u2019s…<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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British archives hiding royal family\u2019s links to anti-Semitism in 1930s, says historian By JP O\u2019 Malley Amid row over 7-year-old Elizabath\u2019s \u2018Nazi salute,\u2019 German historian Karina Urbach says documentation on monarchy\u2019s connections to Hitler is being withheld, may well have been destroyed LONDON \u2014 In April 1945, code-breakers at Bletchley Park, England, intercepted the following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23729"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23750,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23729\/revisions\/23750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}