Published: 14 December 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
AN EXTENSIVE LITERATURE on the Duke of Windsor already exists, but these accounts are significantly impaired, however, because the documentation available to historians has been fragmentary.
Materials from the private files I kept as chief US editor of the German documents series from 1952-58 can help fill this gap in the official record. My former colleague, British Major KHM Duke, who was associated with the German Foreign Ministry archives from 1945-59, has supplied additional materials from the British Foreign Office files in the Public Record Office and from Lord Beaverbrook’s papers in the House of Lords Record Office.
Thus, a more complete synthesis of the British government’s efforts to suppress publication of the Windsor file can now be offered.
FULL STORY How Winston Churchill suppressed the true extent of the former King Edward VIII’s collaboration with Nazi Germany (Tablet)
Photo: Duke of Windsor meets Hitler in 1940 (PA)
