Hitler Resistance Website

[sapper]

Its a good job they never got here, for there were siren voices prewar that said "We should make peace with Hitler" If they had invaded us, and taken us over there would be a hell of a lot of people that would have groveled, and supported the Nazis.

For their was support in certain quarters of our right wing press for Hitler. It may be forgotten now? but some of us have very long memories. Me for one.
Sapper

[von Poop]

It's like Harry says isn't it, luckily we were never invaded, either physically or politically by a Hitler. (by the by, my rather posh Granny was a friend of one of those 'siren voices', Mr Mosley)
So hard to imagine how I'd have reacted at the time if I were German. I suspect resistance wouldn't even cross my mind & I'd be holding my arm in the air and hoping for a better job with the rest of the average populace.
Watching a programme about Hess last night, an American lawyer of his at Nuremberg described the Nazi gang as utterly without conscience or real experience of the outside world, complete 'yes-men'. It's amazing what only a few years of rule & propaganda by men like that could do to an essentially average European population.

[Paul Reed]

You are right Brian - you only have to look at some of the figures in 1930s Britain who courted Hitler. There was a list of people who were thought to be sympathetic (or more) to Hitler, and it was used to detain people under Rule 18b (?) in 1940... the complete list has never been published. I think it may well cause some red faces if it was.

[soren1941]

Edward and Simpson, did'nt they do the Nazi salute upon meeting Hitler? or I might of dreamt it!

[Harry Ree]

The support for Hitler from the upper echelons of society, power and influence developed because these people feared a social change. Anyone desiring a change in the life that the majority had to endure in the 1930s was considered to have communist leanings.Hitler's domestic policy appeared to represent their interests they were happy in some cases to pay homage to him on the Obersalzburg.

Even Lloyd George fell under his spell and he made the journey to Hitler's second seat of government to applaud his transformation of Germany.Perhaps one of the greatest sycophants for the new regime and Hitler was the 7th Marquess of Londonderry whose toady traits were revealed in the recent publication."Making Friends with Hitler".(This man was apparently a cousin of WSC)

One thing it did result in, indirectly, was that the BEF went to France with inferior equipment

Regarding the sycophants,had occupation happened here,yes we would have had our Quislings.As it was, many were detained under the 18B regulations but perhaps not enough.