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Germans were delusional, it's correct. They expected the British empire and the USA to join the Axis through political means and fight communism alongside them
by julienreszka 7y ago
Germans were delusional, it's correct.
They expected the British empire and the USA to join the Axis through political means and fight communism alongside them. A long war was never an option for them.
How naive.
In 1941 Rudolf Hess even took a plane alone to fly to the UK to try and convince the British lords to join the Axis.
One of the most surrealistic thing they did. Incredible.
- soperj 7y agoExcept that King Edward VIII was a known Nazi Sympathizer. If he hadn't abdicated the throne things could have been much different.
- julienreszka 7y ago'could' exactly. That's the definition of delusion.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoErm the monarch held no power as head of state during the war years - the few remaining symbolic powers were just that - symbolic. Victoria was the last to actually use one after she was essentially backed into a corner by Palmerston not naming a replacement PM, despite months of avoiding in parliament. That was the mid 1850s. Now, had you mentioned that a good proportion of the pre-war Tory party were Nazi sympathisers you might be on to something. Notably including Halifax who was offered the premiership before Churchill, after Chamberlain resigned.
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- pnako 7y agoAt the time, things were not as clear cut as they are in hindsight, 80 years later. In 1941, while Hess was flying to Scotland to try to negotiate peace with Britain, Jewish fascists (Lehi) were trying to negotiate an alliance with Nazi Germany. This also sounds delusional in hindsight, and indeed they got ignored by Nazis. But it kind of makes sense if you consider that they were trying to get Germany to fight Britain, which at the time was occupying Palestine (to some extent this also explains why Hitler enjoyed some support in Arab countries).