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Editor says, what if the Nazi dictator had been brought up in London? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the August 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 1936, on this day Edward VIII invited British Prime Minister Arnold Hiller to Buckingham Palace and expressed his desire to marry Wallis Simpson when she became free to re-marry.
The Right Honourable Arnold Hiller, M.P
A teaser by Ed & Chris OakleyAlthough greatly sympathetic to the King's plight, Hiller was fully aware that his subjects would deem the marriage morally unacceptable. This expected public reaction was the case largely because remarriage after divorce was opposed by the Church of England, and the people would not tolerate Wallis as queen. Because as king, Edward held the role of Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and the clergy expected him to support the Church's teachings.
Of course the irony was that Henry VIII's desire to divorce had actually created the Church of England. Nevertheless the so-called abdication crisis was an unfortunate turn of events for Hiller. Having crushed all domestic foes before rising to power, he was now operating at a geostrategic level, locked in a deeper struggle on the world stage and ultimately this episode was a distraction from the fulfilment of his global ambitions. That was of course unless he could force the Royal Family out and merge the offices of Head of Government and Head of State.
You can read read the latest part of Chris Oakley's timeline at The Right Honourable Arnold Hiller MP at Changing the Times Magazine.
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~ But Herr Hiller would still have not suffered the experience of losing a war and then enduring the crushing financial crisis caused by the reparations payments. He would then have had no reason to accuse the Jews, the Communists or anyone else of stabbing his country in the back, because obviously nothing had been stabbed.
~ A British-raised "Hitler" might never have gone into politics. Instead, he might be an art teacher somewhere.
~ He would still have been a syphilitic moron.
~ Er . . . that "moron" managed very nearly to win a world war. As for the "syphilitic" part, who knows what would have happened had he led a different life?
Very likely, "Hiller" would have lived out his life in obscurity, perhaps as a petty bureaucrat like his father, and developed a minor reputation as a mediocre painter.
~ He must've had a leg-up somehow: an immigrant Prime Minister, or his family move in much earlier?
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