Dutch Prince Bernhard was member of Nazi party

By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels Published: 6:51PM GMT 05 March 2010

Prince Bernhard and his daughter Queen Beatrix Photo: REX FEATURES

"Bernhard, a tip history" has suggested that the king was a part of of the German Nazi celebration until 1934, 3 years prior to he tied together Princess Juliana, the destiny black of the Netherlands.

Annejet outpost der Zijl, a Dutch historian, has found membership papers in Berlin"s Humboldt University that infer Prince Bernhard, who complicated there, had assimilated Deutsche Studentenschaft, a National Socialist tyro fraternity, as well as the Nazi NSDAP and the paramilitary wing, the Sturmabteilung.

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He left all the groups on withdrawal university in Dec 1934, when he went to work for the German containing alkali giant, IG Farben.

The king regularly denied carrying been a part of of the Nazi party, nonetheless he certified that he quickly had sympathised with Adolf Hitler"s regime. In one of the last interviews he gave prior to his genocide in 2004, he said: "I can swear this with my palm on the Bible: I was never a Nazi."

As the Nazis invaded Holland in 1940, the immature king consort, afterwards elderly 28, organized a organisation of house guards that intent in fight with German forces.

Denied the possibility to stay and organize insurgency by the afterwards Queen Wilhelmina, he became head of the Dutch Royal Military Mission formed in London.

As "Wing Commander Gibbs" an titular arrange he hold in the RAF the king after flew Allied bombing raids over assigned Europe prior to returning in 1944 as a Dutch fight hero.