A 76-year-old letter from a high-ranking Nazi, asking former King Edward VIII to give evidence in his favour at the Nuremberg war trials, has emerged and is going up for auction.
The typed document was written by Joachim von Ribbentrop, Adolf Hitler's minister of foreign affairs, in January 1946.
Von Ribbentrop was instrumental to the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland, which triggered the start of the Second World War, encouraged the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbour and helped orchestrate the Holocaust.
