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Fact-checking 'The Crown': Did the Duke of Windsor plot with Hitler to betray Britain?
Michael S. Rosenwald

In late October of 1937, Adolf Hitler welcomed a rather well-known couple to his mountain retreat for a cup of tea.

Hitler, by then, was German chancellor - a vehement anti-Semite taking an ever tightening and violent hold on the country. As a host, he couldn't have been more pleasant.

"Before tea," The New York Times reported, "Hitler showed his guests the house and grounds. They stood for some time on the terrace looking down into Austria, with the border town of Salzburg framed between the mountains."

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