EX-CROWN PRINCE WILHELM
IN ITALY FOR WINTER SPORTS REPORTED EVASION OF HITLER’S PURGE DENIED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 10. (Received February 11, at 10.40 a.m.) The afternoon papers give prominence to a report that the ex-Crown Prince of Germany left the country on the eve of Herr Hitler’s purge and arrived at Kufstein, on the Austro-German frontier, on February 3 without a passport. He said he was going to Italy. The authorities allowed him to proceed after identification. They provided him with an escort of two officers and permitted him to enter Italy without a passport. He proceeded to Cortina. Speaking to the British United Press representative on the telephone to-day, Wilhelm said: “I certainly intend to return to Germany. The passport matter was an accident. My valet forgot it. I am hero for the winter sports. All other reports are entirely unfounded.” A message from Cortina says Wilhelm’s passport arrived, and he is returning to Germany on February 20.
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Evening Star, Issue 22880, 11 February 1938, Page 9
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