Posted on 02/27/2017 6:19:40 AM PST by C19fan
These photographs capture the day David Lloyd George cosied up to Hitler during a pre-war trip to Germany before hailing him as 'the greatest living German'.
The grainy black and white images shows the politician and his entourage travelling around Germany in 1936, where they dined with the Nazi ruler and rode together on new autobahns.
The 16mm propaganda film also captures Lloyd George schmoozing and laughing with the dictator as he tours a Bavarian town.
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In fact, so much so that FDR had to withdraw him as US ambassador to Britain.
Avery Brundage of the US Olympic committee was another big Hitler enthusiast.
Don’t forget Chamberlin’s quote of “ Peace in our Time”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/20/when-america-s-media-cozied-up-to-hitler.html
...Frederick Birchall, Berlin bureau chief for The New York Times, found “a new moderation” in the political atmosphere following Hitler’s rise to power...
...Birchall of the Times, in a March 12 radio broadcast from Berlin, reported that “German violence had been spent” and predicted that “prosperity and happiness” would soon prevail...
In his closing speech at the Berlin palestinian terrorist Olympics Avery Brundage said it was a very successful Olympics.
1936 not 1938, but still appalling.
LOL! Never mind he was Austrian.
Isn’t there joke the Austrians claim Hitler was Bavarian and Beethoven was Austrian.
Again, let me re-emphasize so that no one misses my point, the influence was entirely negative and evil but it was impact. I'm NOT praising Hitler. The world would have been a far better place had he never been born.
Chamberlain knew war was inevitable. But at the time Britain was in no shape to fight.
But Chamberlain made damned sure afterwards that Britain would be ready in due time.
At the time, many still felt the Soviet Union was the bigger threat (a view that wasn’t entirely incorrect), and saw Hitler as being potentially useful against the Soviet Union.
Maybe he thought it would help diversity if Germany and England got along better?
“I hold in my hand a piece of paper”.
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