The King Who Fooled Hitler

TV Movie
2019
49m

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In a tale of double agents and decoys, this documentary reveals, for the first time, the story of King George VI's elaborate ruse to divert German attention away from the Normandy landings i... Read allIn a tale of double agents and decoys, this documentary reveals, for the first time, the story of King George VI's elaborate ruse to divert German attention away from the Normandy landings in 1944.In a tale of double agents and decoys, this documentary reveals, for the first time, the story of King George VI's elaborate ruse to divert German attention away from the Normandy landings in 1944.

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Helen McCrory

Narrator
(voice)

Richard J. Aldrich

Self - University of Warwick
(as Professor Richard Aldrich)

Rory Cormac

Self - Associate Professor, Nottingham University
(as Dr. Rory Cormac)

King George VI

Self
(archive footage)

Neville Chamberlain

Self
(archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self
(archive footage)

Caroline Erskine

Self - Daughter of Sir Alan Lascelles

Adolf Hitler

Self - Führer und Reichskanzler
(archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self
(archive footage)
(as General Dwight Eisenhower)

David Masterman

Self - Nephew of John Masterman

Gerry Czerniawski

Self - Song of Agent Brutus

Peter Sullivan

Additional Voices
(voice)

Duke of Windsor

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Queen Elizabeth II

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Stuart Whelan

Anthony Eden
(uncredited)

Director
- Paul Elston
Writer
- Paul Elston
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2grtdanepage

American made history

If you can overlook the mispronounciation of Buckingham ( it's 'em...not ham) and the opening narration that refers to the Queen Mother as Elizabeth the first (old girl looks pretty good for having been dead for over 300 years) it's a fairly interesting way to spend a few minutes of quarantine.

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New Information

This documentary presents some new information about the ways in which the Royal family helped the war effort in WW 2. Bear in mind that Edward was a known Nazi and Hitler fan, so when he abdicated and George took over, there were serious doubts about the position of the Royals. The documentary itself is pretty ordinary, but the information it presents is startling. Well worth a view.

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With the British Royal family being from German ancestry , whose family [German] name being Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and changed [17th July 1917] to Windsor, to appease the English populace, it was possible that the reasoning behind the mistrust of the Royal family, by the British Secret Service, was their, possible and alleged, family-ties and connections to the German Aristocracy and its Royal families and furthermore England's former king King Edward VIII Duke of Windsor and his very close ties to, and within, Nazi Germany.