UK uncovers WW2 history fraud
Published: 06 May, 2008, 11:57
Edited: 15 November, 2009, 04:11
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor meet Adolf Hitler in 1937
A series of documents, used by a British historian to reveal WW2 'secrets', have been exposed as fakes. The Guardian says that Martin Allen used the documents in 3 books to make sensational claims, including that the Duke of Windsor leaked intelligence to
Allen had cited 29 documents stored in the National Archives, which has now revealed that they were fakes, planted between 2000 and 2005.
The forged 'evidence' was said to be amateurish, with a laser printer used for some of the work.
Allen is unlikely to be charged with any offences, partly because of his failing health.
The National Archives have overhauled its security after the fraud was unearthed.
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There must be something about WW2 which invites fakery, even when you'd think there was no reason for it. There are 100s of genuine and shocking memoirs from Holocaust Survivors - yet many of the ones that have been commercial successes (Painted Bird, Fragments) are either partial or total frauds. Jezinsky didn't wander alone amongst anti-semitic sadists and perverts, he spent the war with his parents, protected (at great risk to themselves) by the uncouth Polish peasants he castigated later. Wilkmorsky spent the entire war in Switzerland - he wasn't even Jewish! Dark shadows hang over the personal stories of at least two of the most famous survivors even as they pour poison over some of the real survivor witnesses who dare to challenge their profiteering ways.
If the stories about King Edwards closeness to Hitler were fakes then why was he kept out of Britain for so many years after the war?