Secrets of WW2?Any good sites/books,etc?

Question

I'm trying to find out about stuff that was "swept under the carpet" during WW2,specifically stuff relating to people/groups/countries who helped the Nazi's but were never caught,prosecuted,or shamed.I would be grateful for any help on this.

Answer 1

Plenty of things about WW-2 were swept under the carpet.

One story which appeard in the Daily Mail several years ago, showed photographs of Martin Boreman alive and well and living in UK with his English wife some years [c1950s] after the war.

Boreman, according to the DM, had been a spy, possibly a double agent working for Mi6 during the war.

I also heard from a 'secretive source' that it was the SAS on the orders of Winston Churchill who captured and killed Benito Mussolini. This was done apparently to keep his mouth shut. Winston had been trying to work out a deal with Benito to the effect that if he surrendered all Italian forces to the Brits., he, [Mussolini] would get safe passage to somewhere/anywhere of his choosing. Note that Mussolini, unlike A.Hitler is buried in a masoleum and not just thrown naked into a hole in the ground. [Think about that and ask yourself, why?].

Another event which occured immediately after WW2 and which is directly related to it, was the fact that the new Labour Government immediately reformed the recently disbanded SAS under the Colonelship of Sterling. Their new task was to go into Germany, even though the war had ended and was officially over and done with, and to seek out and kill former members of the Gestapo and SS. This task was carried out by the SAS in c1946. Former Gestapo officers were captured by the SAS taken to a forest and then slowly shot to death. Some taking as long as six hours to die. This was in revenge for the murder[s] of dozens of British commandos, members of the SAS, SOE and members of the French Resistance, who were tortured to death on the orders of the Gestapo,

I knew about this last paragraph from my troop sergeant when I joined the British Army in 1957 [1957-1965]. He had been in one of these SAS united described above and also had been formerlly in the Long Range Desert Group, forerunner of the SAS as it became known under Sterling.

Answer 2

Just put a search for Secrets of World War 2 you will get loads of gen

Answer 3

The Spy who Spent the War in Bed (and other bizzare taled of WWII)

Answer 4

Hey, somtimes on history channels such as UKTV History, they actually show a program called "secrets of WWII". Maybe u should have a look on their website?
www.uktv.co.uk/history/homepage/sid/5008
or
www.sky.co.uk
Good Luck Xxx

Answer 5

Sorry but if they were never caught we will never know properly

Answer 6

Driven a Ford Lately???

Links and a few words to set the tone then I'll return with a few words...
http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/chapter_11.htm
""""Behind the battle fronts in World War II, through intermediaries in Switzerland and North Africa, the New York financial elite collaborated with the Nazi regime, Captured files after the war yielded a mass of evidence demonstrating that for some elements of Big Business, the period 1941-5 was "business as usual." For instance, correspondence between U.S. firms and their French subsidiaries reveals the aid given to the Axis military machine — while the United States was at war with Germany and Italy. Letters between Ford of France and Ford of the U.S. between 1940 and July 1942 were analyzed by the Foreign Funds Control section of the Treasury Department. Their initial report concluded that until mid-1942:

(1) the business of the Ford subsidiaries in France substantially increased; (2) their production was solely for the benefit of the Germans and the countries under its occupation; (3) the Germans have "shown clearly their wish to protect the Ford interests" because of the attitude of strict neutrality maintained by Henry Ford and the late Edsel Ford; and (4) the increased activity of the French Ford subsidiaries on behalf of the Germans received the commendation of the Ford family in America.1

Similarly, the Rockefeller Chase Bank was accused of collaborating with the Nazis in World War II France, while Nelson Rockefeller had a soft job in Washington D.C.:

Substantially the same pattern of behavior was pursued by the Paris office of the Chase Bank during German occupation, An examination of the correspondence between Chase, New York, and Chase, France, from the date of the fall of France to May, 1942 discloses that: (1) the manager of the Paris office appeased and collaborated with the Germans to place the Chase banks in a "privileged position;" (2) the Germans held the Chase Bank in a very special esteem — owing to the international activities of our (Chase) head office and the pleasant relations which the Paris branch has been maintaining with many of their (German) banks and their (German) local organizations and higher officers; (3)the Paris manager was "very vigorous in enforcing restrictions against Jewish property, even going so far as to refuse to release funds belonging to Jews in anticipation that a decree with retroactive provisions prohibiting such release might be published in the near future by the occupying authorities;" (4)the New York office despite the above information took no direct steps to remove the undesirable manager from the Paris office since it "might react against our (Chase) interests as we are dealing, not with a theory but with a situation."2""


http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000124/silverstein
"""We have sworn to you once,
But now we make our allegiance permanent.
Like currents in a torrent lost,
We all flow into you.

Even when we cannot understand you,
We will go with you.
One day we may comprehend,
How you can see our future.
Hearts like bronze shields,
We have placed around you,
And it seems to us, that only
You can reveal God's world to us.

This poem ran in an in-house magazine published by Ford Motor Company's German subsidiary in April of 1940. Titled "Führer," the poem appeared at a time when Ford maintained complete control of the German company and two of its top executives sat on the subsidiary's board. It was also a time when the object of Ford's affection was in the process of overrunning Western Europe after already having swallowed up Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland in the East.""


http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWkentD.htm
"""The result of Chamberlain's appeasement policy was the signing of the Munich Agreement. George VI wrote to Chamberlain on hearing the news: "I am sending this letter by my Lord Chamberlain, to ask you if you will come straight to Buckingham Palace, so that I can express to you personally my most heartfelt congratulations on the success of your visit to Munich. In the meantime this letter brings the warmest of welcomes to one who by his patience and determination has earned the lasting gratitude of his fellow countrymen throughout the Empire."

Prince George shared his brother's view of appeasement and was considered the leader of the Anglo-German peace group. According to the authors of Double Standards (2001) the Duke of Kent met Rudolf Hess and Alfred Rosenberg during the 1930s. A report written by Rosenberg for Adolf Hitler in October 1935 stated that the Duke of Kent was working behind the scenes "in strengthening the pressure for a reconstruction of the Cabinet and mainly towards beginning the movement in the direction of Germany."

In February 1937 it was reported that the Duke of Kent had met the Duke of Windsor in Austria. Later that year a Foreign Office document pointed out that the Duke of Kent had developed a close relationship with Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador in London.

The Duke of Kent took part in secret talks with his cousin Prince Philip of Hesse in early 1939 in order to avoid a war with Nazi Germany. In July 1939, the Duke of Kent he approached George VI with a plan to negotiate directly with Adolf Hitler. The king, who supported the idea, spoke to Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax about the plan.

On the outbreak of the Second World War the Duke of Kent and his family moved to Scotland, living in Pitliver House, near Rosyth, in Fife. He returned to active military service at the rank of Rear Admiral, briefly serving on the Intelligence Division of the Admiralty. In April 1940, he transferred to the Royal Air Force. He took the post of Staff Officer in the RAF Training Command at the rank of Air Commodore.

In 1940 the Duke of Kent travelled to Lisbon to meet the dictator of Portugal, Antonio Salazar. The Duke of Windsor, who was in Madrid at the time, planned to meet his brother while he was in Lisbon. British officials were instructed to prevent the former king from going to Portugal until the Duke of Kent had left the country.

On 10th May, 1941, Rudolf Hess flew a Me 110 to Scotland with the intention of having a meeting with the Duke of Hamilton. Hess hoped that Hamilton would arrange for him to meet George VI. According to the authors of Double Standards (2001) the Duke of Kent was with Hamilton at his home (Dungavel House) on the night that Hess arrived in Scotland. As the Duke of Kent's papers are embargoed it is impossible to confirm this story. However, we do know from other sources he was at RAF Sumburgh in the Shetlands on the 9th and at Balmoral in Scotland on the 11th of May. The following day he was at RAF Wick at Caithness. He was therefore definitely in that area during this period. """

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MONedwardVIII.htm
"""Over the next two years Edward travelled extensively in Europe including visiting Nazi Germany where he met Adolf Hitler. When France was occupied by the German Army in 1940, Edward and his wife moved to Spain. In July 1940 the couple went to live in Portugal. Soon afterwards the Federal Bureau of Investigation received information that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were being used by the Nazis to obtain secrets about the Allies. On 13th September 1940, an FBI officer sent a memo to J. Edgar Hoover that: "An agent has established conclusively that the Duchess of Windsor has recently been in touch with Joachim von Ribbentrop and was maintaining constant contact and communication with him. Because of their high official position, the duchess was obtaining a variety of information concerning the British and French official activities that she was passing on to the Germans."

The British government also discovered that Adolf Hitler planned to make Edward the puppet king of the United Kingdom if the Germans won the Second World War. When he heard the news, Winston Churchill, the British prime minister, arranged for the Duke of Windsor to leave Europe and become the governor of the Bahamas.

After the war the Duke and Duchess of Windsor lived in France. Edward's book, A King's Story, appeared in 1951. His wife's book, The Heart has its Reasons, appeared in 1956. Edward, Duke of Windsor, died in Paris on 28th May, 1972. ""

It is said that Lord Eden pushed Edward into marrying Wallis-Simpson because he feared having a pro-Nazi King on the throne of England !!

That said you ought to check out 'The Patriotic Traitors,' though a bit dry it does go country by country listing men, mostly, and women who aided the Nazis.........

Peace.................
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