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Clarify, please[edit]

There is not believed to be any form of evidence that the Duke accepted any terms offered by the Nazis in a bid to co-operate with Operation Willi, believing he was initially more impressed by the encouragement he had from the UK Government to become Governor of The Bahamas...

Not clear who 'believed' that the Duke was impressed with the prospect of becoming Governor of the Bahamas. He is known to have been most unimpressed with it, complaining that he had been dumped in a third-rate colony. Valetude (talk) 12:30, 27 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have updated this to state as clearly as possible that he was impressed with the encouragement from the government. His views on the bahamas being a 3rd rate colony developed upon arriving there. ToonIsALoon (talk) 14:18, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious[edit]

The "Popular Culture" section refers to the TV series "The Crown" and states it depicts Queen Elizabeth II's initial review of the documents and is thereafter seen to banish the Duke of Windsor from the family as a result. I’ve flagged this as dubious; are there any sources that claim this is what it depicts?
It does show her rejecting the Duke’s desire for a substantial role in Britain’s affairs, and it does show her berating him for betraying his country. It also shows her reminding him that he still needed her permission to enter the country. But I don’t see that means banishment; he was already living in exile, and the sub-plot of the episode was of Elizabeth’s concern about forgiveness, so the possibility of his return was left open-ended.
So is this banishment idea from a critical source, or is it just somebody’s opinion? Swanny18 (talk) 23:27, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I have removed the banish statement and left the historian's review of the episode.ToonIsALoon (talk) 14:21, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

400 t of material under ground?[edit]

The article states that "Around 400 tonnes of material was exhumed by the United States military". Does this mean that von Loesch has buried this enormous amount of paper all by himself, in a very short time?

Or do the 400 tonnes refer to all of the papers recovered from the abandoned vehicles, and only a small part of the material was buried and subsequently exhumed? 95.131.98.156 (talk) 95.131.98.156 (talk) 13:02, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The answer to the first question is no. Von Loesch was in charge of only one particular collecting point of the German Foreign Ministry archives. "In May 1945 the collection of documents from the evacuation centers at Falkenburg, Stollberg, Meisdorf, Degenershausen, and Falkenstein were moved to the castle at Marburg". George O. Kent (US Department of State), "The German Foreign Ministry's Archives at Whaddon Hall 1948-1958", The American Archivist, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Jan., 1961), p. 44 and footnote 3 of the same page. By the way, George O. Kent mentions only 300 tons of papers, not 400 (p. 48). JBarreto (talk) 15:05, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]