Why Edward the 8th and Wallace Simpson should have been tried for treason

[Chasstev365]

Edward 8th and Wallace Simpson should have been tried and possibly executed for not just merely their Nazi sympathies, but Edward actually encouraged the bombing London during the Blitz so Britain would sue for peace and he would assume the throne under Nazi rule.

"Yet another damning piece of evidence read that the “Duke believes with certainty that continued heavy bombing will make England ready for peace.”

https://allthatsinteresting.com/marburg-files

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Oh Yeah?

More than a few wealthy people had investments in Nazi Germany. In the US too.

Check out Mark Felton's YouTube channel and his chasing down the demise, in captivity, of Himmler as well as Rudolf Hess some 40 years later. He implies, rather strongly, there were secrets the government didn't want revealed. Some things remain classified to this day.

And his piece on Schloss Friedrichshof. Some royal houses straddled a lot of geography on both sides of the WWII conflict.

[Mariana]

2. Wallis Simpson wasn't a citizen of the UK.

Therefore, she could not be guilty of treason against the UK, by definition.

Maybe the Duke of Windsor committed treason, but there's nothing in that story that indicates that he did. Treason requires action that materially benefits an enemy. Beliefs, opinions, and sympathies don't count as treason.

[Chasstev365]

3. Right...

Wallace Simpson wasn't a citizen: you're spliting hairs

Did you read the article at all?

As for your feelings about Edward: Tell that to the thousands of RAF pilots who bravely gave their lives to defend Britain and to the thousands of men, women, and children who died in the Blitz that Edward hoped would bring surrender to make him to the "pawn king" of Adolf Hitler.

[Mariana]

5. Words have actual meanings.

Hoping for a thing to happen isn't treason. Did he actually do anything to make it happen? Maybe he did, but the story doesn't say that.

[Chasstev365]

8. Either you just enjoy arguing or you think you're a lawyer in a court of law.

I stand by my point, my quote, and my source as treasonous actions on the part of Edward the 8th and Wallace Simpson.

Go pick apart someone else's post!

[SocialDemocrat61]

4. It's been alleged

that he passed allied intelligence to the Nazis in 1940, aided the Nazis in the defeat of France.

[Mariana]

6. Yes, it's been alleged.

However, the story doesn't provide any evidence of that. The OP apparently thinks he should have been executed for his thoughts alone.

[SocialDemocrat61]

7. You should watch this

There's also an episode of The Crown about it.