An astonishing image and footage from a Nazi state funeral, held within view of Buckingham Palace, will be publicly revealed in the forthcoming Discovery Channel program: ‘Wartime London with Harry Harris’.

The extraordinary scenes captured in 1936, following the death of the German Ambassador Leopold Von Hoesch, show people clearly giving the Nazi salute on the balcony of the Germany Embassy on Carlton House Terrace, overlooking The Mall.

Harry, a London cab driver and historian who has driven a taxi for two decades, has absorbed everything about the capital and its history. In the program, Harry uses his knowledge to explore London to find out just how close Britain came to falling into Hitler’s hands, and uncovers some astonishing secrets from wartime history, including how the Nazis infiltrated Britain during the Second World War, as well as how many British people were in fact Fascist sympathizers.

The Carlton House Terrace building currently occupied by the Royal Society, the National Academy of Science, was the former home of the German Embassy.

Royal Society Executive Secretary, Stephen Cox said: “It must have been a striking sight to see the Grenadier Guards and Nazi soldiers march together down The Mall with a coffin with a swastika on it.

“This picture is incredible as the soldiers who are side by side could easily have been facing each other on the battlefield just three years later.”

Source: Discovery Channel

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