Nazi sympathiser and former King the Duke of Windsor ‘wanted England to be bombed’, international archives reveal

The Duke of Windsor, who is widely regarded as a Nazi sympathiser, once argued that bombing England could bring peace by ending WWII, it has emerged. The Duke of Windsor was forced to abdicate in 1936 Correspondence kept in the Royal Archives between the British royal family and their German relatives in the run up to WWII remains confidential. However, information pieced together from open archives across 30 countries, including Germany, Spain and Russia, has revealed the close relationship some members of the European aristocracy had with the Nazis. Dr Karina Urbach, senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical…