A lot of Brits supported Hitler and Mussolini in the early to mid 1930s. Oswald Mosely was very popular. That’s the dirty little secret they don’t like to talk about. Churchill was almost run out of his own party for daring to say that Hitler was a bad guy.
Thank you. This is true, unfortunately.
He-who-must-not-be-named had many sympathizers in Britain, and in some other countries as well, and after the catastrophe had begun, nobody would admit to it.
Needless to say, the ones who had had the biggest sympathies would be the ones to deny it the most.
A Swiss friend of mine told me once that the most Germanophobic of his countrymen after ‘45 had been the same ones to keep swastika flags in their closet, to show their goodwill towards the potential invaders...
Così fan tutte, as the Italians say (and Mozart said, too) :-(