De banden van Bernhard

Overview

There was a big fuss last year when it became known that Prince Bernhard's NSDAP membership card had been found in his own archives. But how new was the revelation really? Bernhard has always denied being a member of the NSDAP, and yet historians have previously convincingly demonstrated his ties to Hitler's Nazi party. Why is it that Prince Bernhard's now well-known past keeps leading to new headlines? Media logic about how media, historians, institutions, the Royal Family and politicians have been struggling with Prince Bernhard's Nazi past for years.