Barry Domvile

Sir

Barry Domvile
Born5 September 1878 (1878-09-05)
London, England, United Kingdom
Died13 August 1971 (1971-08-14) (aged 92)
London, England, United Kingdom
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Navy
Years of service1892–1936
RankAdmiral
CommandsHMS Miranda
HMS Tipperary
HMS Centaur
HMS Curacoa
HMS Royal Sovereign
Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Battles/warsSecond World War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Companion of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George

Admiral Sir Barry Edward Domvile, KBE, CB, CMG (5 September 1878 – 13 August 1971) was a high-ranking Royal Navy officer who was interned during the Second World War for being a Nazi sympathiser.[1] Throughout the 1930s, he had expressed support for Germany's Adolf Hitler as well as pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic sentiments.[2]

  1. ^ "Admiral Sir Barry Edward Domvile, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G. (1878-1971)". www.dumville.org. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  2. ^ Woodbridge, Steven (5 October 2020). "The Admiral who admired Hitler: Sir Barry Domvile, Nazism and early Historical Revisionism" (PDF). The British Association for Holocaust Studies. Retrieved 1 December 2023.

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