The Hohenzollern can rely in the dispute with the state of Brandenburg for a million in compensation on a previously unknown opinion. In it write the historians Wolfram Pyta and Rainer Orth, 1932/33, the then Crown Prince Wilhelm "actively participated in the prevention" of the chancellorship of Adolf Hitler, "and refer to Wilhelm's proximity to Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher.
Although Schleicher is one of the gravediggers of the Weimar Republic, but wanted to stop his rival Hitler. According to reports, he therefore considered either installing the Hohenzoller as "Reichsverweser" (trustee of the Reichsgewalt) or splitting the NSDAP and ruling with its left wing without Hitler. Wilhelm should have supported both projects; President Paul von Hindenburg, however, relied on Hitler.
The current lawsuit is about real estate of the Hohenzollern, which expropriated the Soviets after 1945. So far, Brandenburg refuses compensation on the grounds that Wilhelm has "given National Socialism a considerable boost" - which the Hohenzollern dispute. Both sides now have two reports each (SPIEGEL 31/2019).
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However, the experts of Hohenzollern side contradict each other: Pyta / Orth write Wilhelm to an important anti-Hitler figure, Christopher Clark - the other reviewers - judges, however, that Wilhelm had sympathized with the Nazis, but had been insignificant: "The man was a bottle. "
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