Uncovering the British Royal Family’s correspondence with Nazi Germany: The Marburg Files

Karthick Nambi
Lessons from History
5 min readMar 22, 2020

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The Duke of Windsor during a visit to Germany in the 1930s. Source: Wikipedia

Across the countryside, In a US military jeep, a German officer was driven. He asked to stop the vehicle near a slope. US soldiers from the jeep went with the German officer.

The German officer pointed at a spot on the side of the road. US soldiers started digging the place and discovered a case. The case contained letters that are about to shake the foundation of the British Monarchy.

Edward VIII the King of England:

King Edward VIII opening the House of Lords . Source: Wikipedia

Edward VIII became the King of the United Kingdom after the death of his father King George V.

Scandals shadowed Edward’s tenure as the King of England. Edward’s relationship with Wallis Simpson, a US divorcee, was the main topic of concern. King Edward was indirectly supporting the Nazi party in Germany during his reign.

There was intelligence that Wallis looked at confidential documents placed in Edward’s table and passed information from those documents to future German Foreign Minister Joachim Ribbentrop, then the German ambassador to the UK.

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