Impazamo enkulu yelifa leMountbatten WWII

Amalungu osapho lwasebukhosini lwaseBritane kwivaranda eseBuckingham Palace emva komtshato kaPrincess Elizabeth kunye noPhilip Mountbatten (kamva uKumkanikazi uElizabeth II kunye neNkosana uPhilip, uDuke wase-Edinburgh), eLondon, nge-20 kaNovemba ka-1947. Ukusuka ekhohlo ukuya ekunene: uKing George VI, iPrincess UMargaret, uLady Mary Cambridge, uElizabethe, uFilipu, uKumkanikazi uElizabeth (kamva uKumkanikazi uMama) kunye noKumkanikazi uMariya. (Ifoto ngu-Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty Izithombe)

Ngokudlula kweNkosana uPhilip, kubekhona ingxoxo malunga nonxibelelwano losapho lwakhe kumaNazi ngexesha leMfazwe yesibini (II) yeHlabathi. Ndithathe isigqibo sokuba ndifuna ukujonga nzulu kuyo kwaye, ngokwenza njalo, ndafumana imbali yosapho enomdla.

Ongasekhoyo iNkosana uPhilip wayengunyana okuphela kwakhe weNkosana uAndrew waseGrisi naseDenmark, kunye neNkosazana uAlice waseBattenberg, kunye noyena mncinci kwabahlanu. Ngexesha lemfazwe, iNkosana uAndrew yayivaleleke eVichy France, ke yayinendima encinci kweli bali. UPhillip walwa kumkhosi wamanzi waseBritani, kwicala lamahlakani. Nangona kunjalo, bonke oodade boNkosana uPhilip babetshatele kumaJamani, abathathu kubo babengamaNazi.

UGottfried, iNkosana yaseHohenlohe-Langenburg wayengumyeni kadadewabo omkhulu kaPhillip, iNkosazana uMargarita waseGrisi naseDenmark. UGottfried wajoyina iqela lamaNazi ngo-1937 kunye nonina kwaye wakhonza phambili kwiRashiya. Ekugqibeleni, wagxothwa emva kweziganeko ze-Operation Valkyrie, ukuzama ukubulala uHitler. Emva kweMfazwe yesibini (II) yeHlabathi, waba ligqwetha kwimidla yeshishini laseNtshona Jamani, ebandakanya ukukhusela ukuqeshiswa komhlaba eLiberia, eyi-sus. Lowo ngumNazi omnye kusapho.

UKumkanikazi uTheodora waseGrisi naseDenmark watshata uBerthold, uMargrave waseBaden, owayekwangumNazi owathi ekugqibeleni wehla ngenxa yokwenzakala. UPrincess Cecilie waseGrisi naseDenmark kunye nomyeni wakhe bajoyina iqela lamaNazi, kodwa basweleka kwinqwelomoya ngo-1937. Okokugqibela, sifumana uPrincess Sophie waseGrisi noDenmark batshata emva kwemfazwe, kwaye umyeni wakhe wayengenalo unxibelelwano olucacileyo lwamaNazi.

Oyinqaba ngaphandle kosapho yayingu-matriarch, u-Princess Alice. Echongwe nge-schizophrenia kwaye wazibophelela kwisibhedlele saseSwitzerland, inkosazana yaphila ubomi obuhluke kakhulu kusapho lwayo. Emva kokuchacha kwakhe, uninzi lweminyaka yakhe eshiyekileyo wayinikela kwimisebenzi yesisa eGrisi, ngakumbi eAthene. Ngelixa wayekhona ngexesha le-WWII, wayebalekele ababaleki abangamaJuda kwaye ekufeni kwakhe wabonwa njengeLungisa phakathi kweZizwe kwa-Israyeli ngomsebenzi wakhe.

Wonke umntu osapho lweNkosana uPhillip wayenxulumene neBritish Royal Family ngoKumkanikazi uVictoria (ewe, bayamanga abazala), ke kutheni beza kuma neJamani namaNazi?

Ewe, kuba ngoKumkanikazi uVictoria, usapho lukhona kakhulu IsiJamani, kangangokuba batshintshe igama labo baba yiWindsor ukusuka kwiNdlu yaseSaxxe-Coburg naseGotha, ngenxa yempembelelo yokulwa neJamani elandela iWWII. Kwakhona, emva kwe-WWI kunye nokusweleka kosapho lwabo baseRussia iiRomanovs, kwabakho uvelwano kwangoko ekuzimiseleni ngokuchasene neRussia.

Ukungathethi, i-anti-semitism kunye ne-elite ideology ye-ideology yayidumile kwizangqa ze-elite. Kodwa ayikokungathi licala losapho likaPhilip kuphela elinoxanduva. U-Elizabeth unomalume wakhe uEdward, Owayengukumkani / iDuke yaseWindsor .

Kwiimemori zakhe, uMlawuli waseWindsor wayeza kumgxotha uHitler njengomntu ohlekisayo, kunye nemidlalo yakhe yeqonga kunye nokuzenzisa kwakhe. Kodwa ngasese, wathi uHitler wayengengomntu ombi kangako, kwaye wayehlala etyhola iqela lamaqela, kubandakanya urhulumente wase-Bhritane, iMelika kunye namaJuda ngokwawo ngokubangela iMfazwe yesibini (II) yeHlabathi. Ngelixa uninzi lwababhali-mbali banamhlanje bevumelana malunga neenkolelo zikaDuke waseJamani, kuyaqhubeka mpikiswano malunga nokuba ngaba abo banovelwano bawelele ngaphaya komgwebo, okanye ukuba inkosi edumileyo ebuthathaka kwaye ethambeka ngokulula yayidlala kanye ezandleni zamaNazi, imenza elona profayili liphezulu lezixhobo ze propaganda.

Kuya kuthatha iminyaka ukuba impembelelo epheleleyo yeDuke yaseWindsor's pro-German / Nazi zenziwe.

Kwintsapho enye sinamaNazi, amaNazi axhasa, ubuzwe baseBritane, kunye nomfazi obeka ubomi bakhe emngciphekweni wokubalekela abantu abangamaJuda. Ngoba? Kungenxa yokuba indawo abahlala kuyo ibavumele ukuba babekho kwiindawo zamandla kwihlabathi liphela. Yinyani ephazamisayo leyo.

(umfanekiso: Umgangatho wangokuhlwa / uHulton Archive / imifanekiso kaFetty)