Prince Philip: We were jealous of Jews

YNet ^ | Mar. 6, 2006

[Alouette]

Queen Elizabeth's husband admits family had 'inhibitions about Jews,' sympathized with Nazis early on

Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip, broke a long silence about his family link to the Nazis, Britain’s Daily Mail reported on Monday.

In a rare interview, the prince said his family found Hitler’s plans to bring Germany at the helm of European power were “attractive” and admitted they had “inhibitions about the Jews.”

The comments were published in a book called “Royals and the Reich,” which describes the German royalty’s acquiescence to the Nazis.

The book, written by American historian Jonathan Petropoulos, includes pictures never published before. One picture from 1937 shows Prince Philip aged 16 with relatives at his sister Cecile’s funeral in dressed in SS and Brownshirt uniforms. Lord Mountbatten, his uncle, is seen wearing a German Navy hat.

Another photograph shows his sister Sophia sitting opposite Hitler at the wedding of Hermann and Emmy Groening, the Daily Mail said.

'Trains ran on time'

The 84-year-old Philip told Petropoulos about his family’s sympathy to the Nazis: “There was a great improvement in things like trains running on time and building. There was a sense of hope after the depressing chaos of the Weimar Republic.

“I can understand people latching on to be something or somebody who appeared to be appealing to their patriotism and trying to get things going. You can understand how attractive it was.”

He added that there was ‘a lot of enthusiasm for the Nazis at the time, the economy was good, we were anti-Communist and who knew what was going to happen to the regime?’

Philip said that he was never ‘conscious of anybody in the family actually expressing anti-Semitic views,’ but acknowledged that that there were ‘inhibitions about the Jews’ and ‘jealousy of their success.’

Philip was born Prince of Greece and Denmark on Corfu in 1921, the youngest of five children and the only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg.

Three of his sisters – Sophie, Cecile, and Margarita – became members of the Nazi party. All his sisters married German princes. Sophie’s husband, Prince Christoph of Hesse, became the head of the secret intelligence service in Germany under Goering.

Philip fought for the Allies in WWII and married the young princess Elizabeth in 1947. She was coronated Queen of England in 1953.

Although his sisters and brothers-in-law are now dead, he keeps in touch with his German relatives.

[Alouette]

Well, we know where Chucky gets it.

[Alouette]

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[voletti]

Ya mean, Charles' sympathies with muzlims runs in his genes?

[ClearCase_guy]

Oswald Mosley had quite a blackshirt following, prior to the war.

[Hildy]

That's the most honest thing I've ever heard a public person say.

[DOGEY]

Ya mean, Charles' sympathies with muzlims runs in his genes?

Charles low IQ runs in the genes too.

[OldFriend]

The reason there is an Israel is because no country wanted the remnants of jews coming to their country.

Nothing has changed, IMO

[dennisw]

July 14, 2005 update: And what does the good prince have to say about the murder by Islamists of 55 in London a week ago? He put fingers to keyboard and produced "True Muslims Must Root Out The Extremists" for the Mirror:

some deeply evil influence has been brought to bear on these impressionable young minds. … Some may think this cause is Islam. It is anything but. It is a perversion of traditional Islam. As I understand it, Islam preaches humanity, tolerance and a sense of community. … these acts have nothing to do with any true faith. … it is vital that everyone resists the temptation to condemn the Muslim community for the actions of such a tiny and evil minority. If we succumb to that temptation, the bombers will have achieved their aim. Likewise, in my view, it is the duty of every true Muslim to condemn these atrocities and root out those among them who preach and practise such hatred and bitterness.

[Airborne1986]

“I can understand people latching on to be something or somebody who appeared to be appealing to their patriotism and trying to get things going. You can understand how attractive it was.”

This is usually not an excuse offered up by a member of the upper/noble class to justify facism. Your family was not missing any meals. Nice try, Phil.

[Cecily]

Aside from Prince Philip, there is a plethora of German blood in that family. Too bad so many of the "noble" and "aristrocratic" Germans joined or allowed themselves to be co-opted by Hitler and his scum.

[nightdriver]

It has been a sore point for some time that the English royal family is almost totally from German ancestry. (Sachs-Coberg-Goethe?)

Princess Dianna provided an authentic English infusion into the royal line.

[dangus]

>> Princess Dianna provided an authentic English infusion into the royal line. <<

Who, her horse trainer? HAR!

[Cecily]

The Queen Mother was Scottish as well, and all of QE II's children married full-blooded Brits.

[massgopguy]

Jealous of the Jews? Let's see. Kindey Pie and Jellied Eels versus the menu at Carnegie Deli. Can't imagine why? "Ah, so there's the Reuben."

[ClearCase_guy]

Actually I think you can take it back to the House of Hanover. George I of England, I believe, spoke no English.

[Txsleuth]

Ping...

This is very interesting...

[linda_22003]

Many members of the family could not attend Elizabeth and Philip's wedding in 1947 because they had been on the wrong side in the Recent Unpleasantness.

[Txsleuth]

Very interesting...glad he is telling this.

[linda_22003]

"almost totally from German ancestry. (Sachs-Coberg-Goethe?)"

Close. Saxe Coburg-Gotha.

[narby]

The mid 30's, with rampant depression here in the states had quite a few people admiring the Germans recovery after they elected Hitler.

Anne Lindberg, Charles Lindberg's wife, wrote a book called "The Coming Wave" where she quite transparently talked up the success of the Germans without quite mentioning them by name. At the time, the question was whether you supported the fascists, or the communists. The Lindberg's had been to both Fascist Germany and Communist Russia and knew the one they preferred. Anne's point was that pretty much the entire world was suffering a great depression and people were starving, and Germany seemed to be the only country where they had "figured out how to succeed". Perhaps their success should be studied for what we could learn from it, becasue certianly we couldn't do much worse than the mess we were in.

My personal conspiracy theory is that closet communists in the New York banking industry deliberately caused the great depression in an effort to bring about that nasty habit that they knew could not be foisted on this country unless we were desperate. Eventually FDR (from NY) led us into the war allied with the Russians, who by 1940 had only killed maybe 20 million or so, while Germany had yet to really get into the killing mode.

All I can say is, thank God for McCarthy, who woke us up in the 50's. Otherwise we would be worse off than the Europeans today.