>>In hindsight in the early 30s, Bolshevism was considered the greater threat, than Hitler. And as far as the Nazis anti-semitism, well, most of the world was anti-semitic, so it didn’t raise too much ire. And many saw Hitler was a reasonable bulwark against the threat of Bolshevism.
Yep. Word about the CHEKA’s mass executions, not only of Czarists, but first on the list were other Socialist revolutionary elements, was carried to the West on a tide of refugees. People forget that Hitler learned about the effectiveness of concentration camps and death labor from Stalin’s gulags.
And they tried to ruin Churchill within his own party when he dared to suggest that Hitler was a really, really bad guy.
Hitler often personally insulted the leaders of enemy nations, but he never had one bad thing to say about Stalin. Yes Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were enemies, but he greatly respected and admired Stalin, and I suspect it was the same for Stalin towards Hitler. They probably both thought it was a shame they had to be enemies.