Summary Of Hidden Agend How The Duke Of Windsor Betrayed The Allies

Book Report: Hidden Agenda: How The Duke Of Windsor Betrayed The Allies

In the Biography “Hidden Agenda: How The Duke Of Windsor Betrayed The Allies” by Martin Allen, many different aspects of the Duke Of Windsor’s life, and the treachery he commits during his time in power through manipulation of his political status. The author’s purpose in writing this novel is to show the corruption of the Nazi Party, and that of the English upper Parliament. While showing so, many topics come up, one example is how the Nazi Regime had their eyes set on making an idyllic system of manufacturing, even making great working conditions for their workers by having pools and break rooms at the factories far before practices like this had occurred in the U.S.

During the early 1900’s, and even before then the Rockefellers had been a very influential family in oil production in the United States, and this is just the type of people the Nazi’s wanted. According to an account of interaction with another famous monopolist that was famous for inventing the modern method of the assembly line “...Henry Ford wrote an extremely anti-jewish book”-[Martin, 56]. The title of this book was “The International Jew” and in this book, or more-so four volume series was a compilation of Anti Semitic thoughts toward the Jewish people. Now that the Nazi party would be able to see that even some of the more powerful monopolists are on their side, this could have lead to stable advancement in industrialization for Germany post the collapse of the Deutsche Mark, a currency that was used before the Nazi political takeover, and during an economic crisis that they had pre-WWII. Other than “big oil being well in touch with the Nazi’s interests”-[Martin, 13]. And that of manufacturing models, for the need of making more Panzer tanks to assault the Maginot Line in Northern France, post capturing the North, the book goes into detail on the French Republic’s military defense strategy. To start the book begins to describe from the perspective of a general that was stationed there on his “armored cars entered Hazen Buck”-[Martin, 205] (a town and or fort during this time in France)and how there was a three day period in which they had a delayed entering to the town, no doubt the work of Nazi forces sabotaging their arrival. The significance of this quote is because those trucks would carry troops and supplies that would be used during an attempt to repel German invader by performing a wedge formation, this would hopefully cause enough casualties in the