On 28 December 1962, ITN’s Tom St John Barry spoke to acclaimed historian AJP Taylor about newly published foreign office documents which were alleged to reveal King Edward VIII's efforts to seek a meeting with Adolf Hitler. Some five years after the publication of the infamous Marburg Files, Taylor gave his view on the significance and reliability of the new evidence of the Duke of Windsor's alleged Nazi sympathies.
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