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How Churchill hid Hitler’s Willi
PETER FROST reveals a long hidden secret of royal treason and treachery
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AS more and more praise is heaped on Winston Churchill and actor Gary Oldman’s portrayal of the man in the film Darkest Hour, I am constantly reminded about how much of Churchill’s actions have been deliberately hidden from history.
Meanwhile, the relatively recently released Netflix boxed set of The Crown has shone a revealing light on one of the biggest scandals of the second world war.
The fact that the Duke of Windsor, the man who had abdicated as King Edward VIII, was in fact an enthusiastic nazi who had made long-term plans with Hitler to become the German dictator’s puppet king of Britain and that it was Churchill who sought to hide that royal treason from the British public and the world.
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