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Hi Annswabey and Nell - it's a long, long story, so I'll try to be brief!
I was at the National Archives in Dec looking at the MI5 file of Henry William Wicks who seemingly abducted my late mother's sister from Hove in c.1928 when she was about 6 years old and took her to Germany. Henry Wicks and my aunt made pro-nazi broadcasts to England during WW2, and Wicks was later imprisoned in England for his part in this. According to family rumour, my Aunt was imprisoned in Spandau Jail, but released without charge because her marriage to a German ( a member of the Nazi party) had rendered her a German Citizen.
Anyhow, when I was looking at Wick's MI5 file, there were references to documents about my Aunt, "X" ( I don't name her ijust in case she is still alive) and handwritten notes saying "this document has been moved to the file of "X""
So I would dearly love to see the file of my Aunt (X)
Perhaps her file just hasn't been passed on to National Archives - lots haven't. I suppose the sensitivity/secrecy of the contents prevents many from being open to public scrutiny. Will see if I can find anything out and report back!
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Have a look at Research Guide 26 on the National Archives website. Lots were destroyed, and lots, as I said before, will not be released
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I would dearly love to see this file as I now suspect that Henry William Wicks might have been my grandfather! Not something I would be particularly proud of as he seems to have been a buddy of David Irvine, the Holocaust denier
Husband has an aged 1st cousin 1nce removed whose first husband was a bodyguard for Oswald Mosley, which is quite bad enough. Especially as this was his mother's cousin on her father's side and her own mother was half-Jewish!
Either destroyed or not released, although I think they release more a couple of times a year.
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Husband has an aged 1st cousin 1nce removed whose first husband was a bodyguard for Oswald Mosley, which is quite bad enough. Especially as this was his mother's cousin on her father's side and her own mother was half-Jewish!
Oswald Moseley came from Rolleston on Dove a village very near to me. My FIL lives there. Rolleston Hall, now demolished,was owned by the Moseley family. His father was the Baronet.
Don't think Rolleston is very proud of him although there are loads of memorials to the rest of the family in the local church St Mary's.
They ought to be able to tell you what the policy was regading keeping/destroying.
My father was in the Civil Service and had to do a regular weeding policy - leaving a representative sample only.
My gut feeling is that, unfortunately it hasn't survived. I would have thought that the information would not have been considered so sensitive that it couldn't yet be released. But if you don't ask, you won't know.
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