A German prince said he will sue a German newspaper for alleging that his family had close ties to the Nazis. Prince Ernst August of Hanover made the comment after the Bild newspaper reported that his grandfather may have profited from the forced sale of a Jewish-owned bank in 1938. The prince, who was recently married to Princess Caroline of Monaco, countered that his grandfather was “well known as being anti-Nazi.”
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