German attempt to kidnap Edward, Duke of Windsor in July 1940
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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 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.
OperationWilli 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...
discovered are alleged to have further detailed a plot by the Nazis, titled OperationWilli and orchestrated in 1940, to persuade the Duke of Windsor to officially...
banker with both British and German contacts. Under the code name OperationWilli, Nazi agents, principally Walter Schellenberg, plotted unsuccessfully...
May 1940, the Duke and Duchess fled to Lisbon. Under the code name OperationWilli, Nazi agents, principally Walter Schellenberg, plotted unsuccessfully...
at least to maintain pro-German neutrality. He was also involved in OperationWilli, an attempt to convince the former King Edward VIII to lobby his brother...
and Duchess of Windsor and try to persuade them to work for Germany (OperationWilli). Schellenberg was supposed to offer them 50 million Swiss francs to...
amours". The Duke of Windsor's War (Weidenfeld, 1982) ISBN 0-297-77947-8 OperationWilli (Weidenfeld, 1984) Wallis and Edward: The Intimate Correspondence of...
HBO on February 12, 1984. The story is a fictionalized account of OperationWilli. Robert Wagner as Joe Jackson Teri Garr as Hannah Winter Horst Janson...
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...
King (which the Nazis indeed tried to achieve in actual history - see OperationWilli). Robert Harris's alternative history novel Fatherland depicts Edward...
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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...
of the Channel Islands, the Duke of Windsor’s exile in Portugal and OperationWilli, the supposed Nazi plot to kidnap the duke and return him to the British...
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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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Klauss Theodore Knacke Siegfried Knemeyer Heinz-Hermann Koelle Gustav Kroll Willi Kuberg Werner Kuers Hermann Kurzweg Hermann Lange Hans Lindenberg Hans Lindenmayer...
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...
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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