Company Willi
Company Willi was the code name of a planned German secret operation to kidnapping of Edward of Windsor in July 1940. The aim was to him as a collaboration with the German dictator Adolf Hitler to force. In return, he was to become King of Great Britain again as part of a future peace settlement with Great Britain . The background of this company became known in the context of the Windsor file .
literature
- Bloch, Michael. Operation Willi: The Nazi Plot to Capture the Duke of Windsor . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984.
Individual evidence
- ^ John Crossland: Duke who just could not be beastly to the Nazis. In: independent.co.uk. The Independent, September 6, 1996, accessed July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Ralf Sotscheck: His Majesty in the service of the Führer. In: taz.de. Die Tageszeitung, December 6, 1996, accessed on July 15, 2020 .