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Title: Was this the moment Edward VIII gave a Nazi salute during 1937 visit to Germany? Photographs showing former king emerge at auction - just days after royal home video controversy
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Daily Mail
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... it-Germany-emerge-auction.html
Published: Jul 21, 2015
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2015-07-21 11:48:09 by noone222
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The then Duke of Windsor, who abdicated the previous year, was pictured making 'Heil Hitler' gesture on 1937 visit Edward VIII faced numerous accusations of being a Nazi sympathiser and once claimed Hitler was 'not a bad chap' Images part of a collection of photographs being put up for auction this month at Morgan Evans and Co on Anglesey Footage emerged this week showing Queen making gesture while playing with Edward VIII as a seven-year-old child Photographs have emerged which appear to show Edward VIII giving the Nazi salute - just days after a home video was published showing the Queen making the same gesture. The Queen's uncle, who abdicated the previous year, is pictured making what appears to be the distinctive 'Heil Hitler' sign while surrounded by uniformed high-ranking fascists on an unofficial visit to Germany in 1937. The photographs, which have emerged just days after the royal video scandal, are believed to be the only pictorial evidence of Edward VIII doing the Nazi gesture, recognised internationally as a sign of obedience to Hitler. But the former king - who abdicated after just one year to marry Wallis Simpson - faced numerous accusations of being a Nazi sympathiser and is known to have performed it at other times. He was once said to have given a Nazi salute to Hitler - which he later claimed was a 'soldier's salute' - and claimed the Fuhrer was 'not a bad chap'. The Duke and his wife - the American socialite who was also accused of harboring alliances with the Nazi party - were also seen smiling and shaking hands with the Nazi leader during a meeting in Munich in the same year. The images, part of a collection of photographs being put up for auction this month at Morgan Evans and Co on Anglesey, have been made public just days after the controversial video, which showed Edward VIII encouraging the future Queen to make the salute. The footage, recorded in 1933, shows the then seven-year-old Princess Elizabeth playing with a dog on the lawn at Balmoral with her sister Margaret, before raising her arm in a Nazi salute. In the latest pictures, taken two years before the outbreak of the war, the then Duke of Windsor is seen standing with Nazis - some of whom are wearing swastika armbands - before raising his right arm. In other photographs from the same collection, Edward is also pictured with his guide Robert Ley, the Nazi head of the German Labour Front, who later committed suicide while awaiting trial at Nuremberg for war crimes. The black-and-white photographs were taken after Hitler had risen to power in Germany, two years before the outbreak of the Second World War. The Nazi salute subsequently became a symbol of fear across Europe, but in the years leading up to the Second World War it did not have the universally recognised connotations that it has today. Edward made the visit, in spite of the opposition of the British Government and Mr Bower believes the photographs - which also includes some of the Major's First World War medals - are a rare find. Poster Comment: The world is a stage and these NAZIS are actors on that stage. It's a big club and we ain't in it.
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