Read about day seven and eight here. The Duke and Duchess arrived in Nüremberg to a royal welcome. In their hotel, the Deutscher Hof, they were given the suite of Hitler’s party congress. The Duke inspected a black-uniformed special Labor Front troop in front of the hotel before withdrawing to the room. A smaller troop [read more]
Read about day six here. On 17 October, the Duke and Duchess spent the day travelling from Essen to Leipzig. They arrived at their hotel to an assembled crowd of around 5,000 people who shouted “Heil!” and applauded them. They even appeared in their hotel window to appease the crowd, which refused to disperse. The [read more]
Read about day five here. On 16 October, they visited Düsseldorf, where they went to an industrial exhibition. Wallis thought this was particularly boring, but the Duke was fascinated by it all. They were perhaps most surprised by the reception they received there. A huge crowd had gathered there, which had not been expected by [read more]
Read about day four here. On 15 October, the Duke and Duchess woke up in Essen after taking a night train. They visited the Krupp’s Armaments Factory, but Wallis, as a woman, was not allowed inside the factory. The Duke went inside to see the enormous Hindenburg Hall with working spaces for 3,500 men building [read more]
Read about day three here. On 14 October, the Duke and Duchess visited the Berlin War Museum and the Pergamon Museum. The original plan had been a visit to Brunswick but the weather took a turn for the worse, making flying not possible. The Duke had a Turkish bath afterwards and had lunch with Wallis [read more]
Read about day two here. On the third day of the visit, Wallis spent the morning resting at the Kaiserhof Hotel in Berlin while her husband went on an inspection tour. In Crossensee, he visited the training school of the Death’s Head Division of the Elite Squad of the SS. After the SS band had [read more]
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