His excuse for why his grandfather worked with the Nazis:
Prince Georg says his great-grandfather may have been wearing a swastika, but his primary motivation was to return the monarchy to power -- and he believed Hitler could make that happen.
He just wanted the monarchy to be restored. That is some argument.
Oh yeah, I only helped the Nazis slaughter all these people because I wanted my status to be restored.
Sometimes I don't know if these people actually listen to what they are saying. :stalin-shining:
Some excerpts from the article:
In a New York newspaper column published in 1933, Wilhelm praised Hitler's "clear-sighted and energetic leadership" and blamed communists and Jews for Germany's tattered reputation.
This new evidence was unearthed by Stephan Malinowski, a historian at the University of Edinburgh whose research has concluded that the Crown Prince significantly contributed to the Nazi regime. Malinowski, who declined to be interviewed for this story, is one of four historians commissioned by the government and Prince Georg's family to investigate the relationship between Wilhelm and the Nazis.
CNN interviewed five additional historians for this story, four of whom now side with Malinowski, though most also agreed that neither side's case is iron-clad. Among them is John Rohl, who said that the Crown Prince had once bragged "that he had actually transposed 2 million votes to Hitler," and Stephanie Middendorf, who argues that he helped make the Nazis more palatable to the upper-class elites he rubbed shoulders with.
I was trying to come up with a comparison to illustrate how fucked this is, but there's literally nothing more galling than giving public funds to the grandchildren of the anti-liberal conservatives who basically created the Third Reich because they were trying to abolish Weimar parliamentarism by any means necessary.
The people who did the legal and philosophical groundwork for the Nazis, who called themselves "Conservative Revolution"(think about that - what a ridiculous term), clearly are some of the most arrogant, self-serving scum the earth has seen.