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The future Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson in 1934. They were married in June 1937.

Operation Willi was the German code name for the unsuccessful attempt by the SS to kidnap Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor in July 1940 and induce him to work with German dictator Adolf Hitler for either a peace settlement with Britain, or a restoration to the throne after the German conquest of the United Kingdom.

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Operation Willi

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Operation Willi was the German code name for the unsuccessful attempt by the SS to kidnap Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor in July 1940 and induce him to...

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Marburg Files

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discovered are alleged to have further detailed a plot by the Nazis, titled Operation Willi and orchestrated in 1940, to persuade the Duke of Windsor to officially...

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Edward VIII

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banker with both British and German contacts. Under the code name Operation Willi, Nazi agents, principally Walter Schellenberg, plotted unsuccessfully...

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Abdication of Edward VIII

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May 1940, the Duke and Duchess fled to Lisbon. Under the code name Operation Willi, Nazi agents, principally Walter Schellenberg, plotted unsuccessfully...

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Joachim von Ribbentrop

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at least to maintain pro-German neutrality. He was also involved in Operation Willi, an attempt to convince the former King Edward VIII to lobby his brother...

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Walter Schellenberg

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and Duchess of Windsor and try to persuade them to work for Germany (Operation Willi). Schellenberg was supposed to offer them 50 million Swiss francs to...

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Michael Bloch

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amours". The Duke of Windsor's War (Weidenfeld, 1982) ISBN 0-297-77947-8 Operation Willi (Weidenfeld, 1984) Wallis and Edward: The Intimate Correspondence of...

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To Catch a King

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HBO on February 12, 1984. The story is a fictionalized account of Operation Willi. Robert Wagner as Joe Jackson Teri Garr as Hannah Winter Horst Janson...

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Willi Mentz

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SS-Unterscharführer Willi Bruno Mentz (30 April 1904 – 25 June 1978) was a member of the German SS in World War II and a Holocaust perpetrator who worked...

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Eberhard von Stohrer

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served until 1939, when he returned to Berlin. He participated in Operation Willi, the German plot to kidnap the Duke of Windsor. He participated in...

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Cultural depictions of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson

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King (which the Nazis indeed tried to achieve in actual history - see Operation Willi). Robert Harris's alternative history novel Fatherland depicts Edward...

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Operation Napoleon

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Operation Napoleon (sometimes with subtitle Frozen Conspiracy, Icelandic: Napóleonsskjölin) is an Icelandic thriller film directed by Óskar Þór Axelsson...

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Willis Reed

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Willis Reed Jr. (June 25, 1942 – March 21, 2023) was an American professional basketball player, coach, and general manager. He spent his entire ten-year...

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Irmfried Eberl

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Treblinka as part of Operation Reinhard. Eberl's poor management of the camp soon proved to be disastrous in the opinion of his colleague Willi Mentz; although...

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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of the Channel Islands, the Duke of Windsor’s exile in Portugal and Operation Willi, the supposed Nazi plot to kidnap the duke and return him to the British...

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Operation London Bridge

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Operation London Bridge was the funeral plan for Queen Elizabeth II. The plan included the announcement of her death, the period of official mourning...

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George Willi

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, in 1964. In 1965, Willi became a trial judge of the U.S. Court of Claims. On October 1, 1982, Willi was appointed by operation of the Federal Courts...

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Operation Paget

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Operation Paget was the British Metropolitan Police inquiry established in 2004 to investigate the conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess...

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Willi Lehmann

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Willi (Willy) Lehmann (15 March 1884 – 13 December 1942) was a police official and Soviet agent in Nazi Germany. Lehmann was a criminal inspector and...

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Willi Kimmritz

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Willi Kimmritz (26 June 1912 – 26 July 1950), known as The Horror of the Brandenburg Forest (German: Der Schrecken der brandenburgischen Wälder), was...

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List of Germans relocated to the US via the Operation Paperclip

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Klauss Theodore Knacke Siegfried Knemeyer Heinz-Hermann Koelle Gustav Kroll Willi Kuberg Werner Kuers Hermann Kurzweg Hermann Lange Hans Lindenberg Hans Lindenmayer...

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Joe Spinell

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1971, he landed his first film role in a small part as the mafioso hitman Willi Cicci working for the Corleone crime family in the crime film The Godfather...

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White Rose

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was led by five students and one professor at the University of Munich: Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl and...

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Willis Augustus Lee

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Willis Augustus "Ching" Lee Jr. (May 11, 1888 – August 25, 1945) was a vice admiral of the United States Navy during World War II. Lee commanded the American...

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