Adolf Hitler SHOCK: How Nazi leader ‘watched and pounced on Prince Edward’

Adolf Hitler found refuge from his father’s violent rages in the world of fantasy where he dreamed of becoming a great artist. The Nazi leader was fanatical about film, even delaying meetings in order to watch new movies. Royal biographer Andrew Morton claims: “Disney cartoons were his favourite, he endlessly watched the antics of Mickey Mouse and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

He particularly liked Snow White as it was based on a German fairytale and was delighted when, one Christmas, Joseph Goebbels gave him a dozen Mickey Mouse films.

At the time, one of his henchmen reportedly said: “He is very pleased and extremely happy for this treasure that will hopefully bring him much joy and relaxation.”

In Andrew Morton’s shocking biography “17 Carnations” the author reveals how Adolf Hitler became fixated with Edward VIII through watching home videos of the King of England.

The book, published in 2016, describes how in January 1936, when Hitler settled into his leather chair in his private cinema, he chose not to watch his normal diet of animated cartoons.

Instead he focused on a living person, German politician Goebbels provided Hitler with a film of Edward VIII overseeing arrangements for his father, George V’s funeral.

England had a new king, a new era, and according to Mr Morton “it was a golden opportunity for Adolf Hitler to bring the new head of state firmly into his orbit”.

Mr Morton claims: “[Hitler] carefully and intently watched a newsreel showing King Edward VIII, focused on the nervy mannerisms and uneasy demeanour of the new king.

“Rather like a cat idly watching a mouse play and lazily wondering how and when to pounce.”

The Nazi leader had something in common with Edward, Hitler’s own traumatic relationship with his father was similar to that of Edward and George V.

The book describes another moment when Hitler was shown another newsreel, this time of King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson on a yachting holiday in the Mediterranean.

Both Edward and Wallis were in bathing suits and Hitler reportedly said “not bad” in relation to Mrs Simpson.

Edward had been on Hitler’s radar since he became Chancellor in 1933, as he was somebody he thought he “could do business with”.

Once the king attracted the “blazing blue-eyed scrutiny” of the German leader, his life became “inextricably if unintentionally entwined with Nazi ambitions”.