Swedish queen says father is hero, not Nazi
“The report was not an independent inquiry — it was commissioned by the queen with the participation of her cousin, a Brazilian lawyer. Such a probe can only raise suspicions of a whitewash,” Steinberg said in a statement. “The truth demands an objective and independent investigative process. What Queen Silvia has produced only raises further troubling questions.”
Walter Sommerlath died in 1990.
Silvia Sommerlath met Carl XVI Gustaf, who became the king of Sweden, at the 1972 Munich Olympics, where she was working as an interpreter. They married in 1976.
A Swedish television station aired an investigation last November into Walter Sommerlath’s alleged Nazi past, reporting that he took over a Jewish-owned German factory in 1939 as part of a Nazi program of Aryanization. The queen issued a denial following the report, saying her father joined the Nazi Party to save his career.
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