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The King’s Speech, Colin Firth, the Nazis, the Jews & Israel

The movie whitewashes this King George’s brother, King Edward VIII–who abdicates the throne because of his marriage to divorcee and well-known slut Wallis Simpson–and his Nazi sympathies. That’s an important historical point, far more important than the much pointed to liberties the movie takes vis-a-vis Kind George VI’s relationship with Winston Churchill. In fact, there is no mention of Ms. Simpson’s sexual affair with German Ambassador to Britain, Joachim von Ribbentrop. The FBI reported that she was passing secret information obtained from her hubby, the King, to the Nazi government.

To skip over this is to do much more than a white lie. It is to create utter fiction and do a disservice to the many minds of mush who will take this move as historical truth. They always do. And, frankly, the movie would have been an even stronger contrast between the King brothers, had the movie bothered to briefly point this out. I feel ripped off that it did not. Read more on this from Spartacus Educational.

Then, there’s the point about King George VI’s own behavior toward the Jewish people in Israel, then known as “Palestine” (though almost all of the Palestinians then were Jews, not these Arab Muslim interlopers who’ve usurped the name, today). Obviously, that part of history is neither a subject nor a part of the movie, nor should it be. But that doesn’t mean we can’t take it into account when assessing whether or not King George VI was really a hero–really a man concerned with courage and doing the right thing–as the movie ultimately shows him, in the end.

It was under George VI that Jews–including at least a ship of them trying to escape the Holocaust and being sent back to their certain deaths in Nazi Europe–were kept out of Palestine, while the Arab Muslims were allowed in and were heavily favored by the Brits. And even after the full horrors of the Holocaust and the death camps were known, the Brits under this King had no problem brutally and consistently turning away Jews trying to avoid this and, later, trying to move on from overcrowded displaced persons camps in Europe. That included the ship, Exodus, whose Holocaust survivor passengers were sent back to Germany via France. Helen Thomas would have loved it.

One person wrote:

F— “The King’s Speech.” Let’s just say the King never stuttered when it came to keeping Jews out of Palestine.