GERMANY: Monarchists Fools?

If the House of Hohenzollern, as most Germans believe, backed Adolf Hitler with secret cash at the start of his skyrocket career, Investors Wilhelm II and ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm must have groaned last week to see their Nazi equity apparently wiped out.

"German Monarchists should stop playing the fool!" shouted Herr Arthur Görlitzer, Vice Chief for Greater Berlin of the Nazi Party, to a quaking roomful of civil servants whom he seemed to suspect of Monarchism. "Men who work for a restoration of the Monarchy we will treat as we do those...

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