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Christina Zaba
Also, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands was indeed a member of the Nazi Party, but he left in 1934. He was never an SS officer.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/7377402/Dutch-Prince-Bernhard-was-member-of-Nazi-party.html
Dutch Prince Bernhard 'was member of Nazi party' - Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk
Prince Bernhard, the father of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, was a member of...

Tony Gosling
Oh yes he was... he admitted to it in his biography Christina. You'll find the extract at http://www.bilderberg.org/bildhist.htm
Origins - articles which explain how and why the Bilderberg meetings began.
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This photograph was taken at the first Bilderberg meeting at Prince Bernhard's...

Christina Zaba
I don't want to labour this point, but the SA is what Bernhard belonged to, as reported in the new book and the Telegraph: "Annejet van der Zijl, a Dutch historian, has found membership documents in Berlin's Humboldt University that prove Prince Bernhard, who studied there, had joined Deutsche Studentenschaft, a National Socialist student fraternity, as well as the Nazi NSDAP and its paramilitary wing, the Sturmabteilung.
He left all the groups on leaving university in December 1934, when he went to work for the German chemical giant, IG Farben."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/7377402/Dutch-Prince-Bernhard-was-member-of-Nazi-party.html
I've looked at your reference and it suggests he got himself into the nascent SS, which took over from the SA in the months following June 1934, through a friend and left in December 1934.
He could not have been an officer during that time as he would have had to go through the process, which took a year. He may have pretended to be one to pass his exams.
What does interest me though is that he then went straight to work for IG Farben, in 1934. IG Farben were the first big German firm to set up in Auschwitz, very early on, in 1942. They held the patent for the pesticide Zyklon B, from which the gas was made for the gas chambers. Of course it was a huge company with thousands of employees. But they sat very well with the Nazis.

Tony Gosling
"The story that the Prince of the Netherlands once wore the black uniform of Hitler’s SS is quite true." Extract from 'H. R. H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; an authorized biography' Harrap, 1962. by Alden Hatch

Christina Zaba
Well yes, but that doesn't mean he was an officer. He was a student. He put on the uniform for a few months in 1934. "SS Officer" suggests something quite different.
I'm not saying he wasn't a member of the Nazis at that time, nor exonerating him from clear Nazi sympathies, just noting that he couldn't have been an SS officer. It is an important distinction.

Tony Gosling
Are you saying a Prince Bernhard Leopold Frederik Everhard Julius Coert Karel Godfried Pieter of Lippe-Biesterfeld was in the lower ranks of the SS? I think not.

Christina Zaba
It was the Sturmabteilung. The SA. He was in the Reiter-SS for a few months in 1934 but not as an officer. And yes I am.
You have to understand that the SS, and the Nazis in general, were looked down on by the German aristocracy. National Socialism was populist, lowest-common-denominator fascism. Hitler was basically an uneducated squaddie in the view of the German aristocrats, who disregarded him and held him in contempt - that was the country's downfall. Hitler himself was never an officer. he was a smash-and grab politician who gained his position through violence, rhetoric and propaganda. Read Laurence Rees, The Nazis, on this. I don't have the sources to hand here.
To call someone an SS officer, when he left the Party almost before the SS was formed and was never an officer, is very misleading. It implies he had a hands-on role in the atrocities of the Second World War, which in the case of this man is demonstrably not true. You have put this up uncritically on the NUJ page which is supposed to be about journalism. Check Code of Conduct guidelines.

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