| Quite true.These people were German and many fought in the Great War for their country.They saw themselves as Germans first and Jewish second.
Alas for too many, the warnings from what was happening in Germany from January 1933 went unheeded.Many thought that a civilised nation,a nation of culture would not stoop to the depths it did for the next 12 years.
It has to be said that there were some in Great Britain who thought favourably of the Hitler regime from the fear of Russian ideology rolling westward.These people were of the social classes that had some influence in public life. One such person was the owner of a national daily and I am sure had Hitler been successful in taking the British Isles, these people would have enacted the Vichy role and willingly accomodated Hitler.
For the German masses who rejoiced at Hitler's victories as he put right the wrongs, as he and his followers saw it, of the Versailles Treaty, they would turn round in defeat and say "We were never Nazis"
Those people who were able to escape from Germany to the British Isles gave valuable service to their adopted country,the majority serving in British military units under assumed names.For some families, their escape from Germany was to France and the Low Countries where the nightmare of persecution and death was enacted again as these countries were overrun by the Nazi hordes. |