[dfwgator]

This was what Churchill was up against, mostly within his own party back then......It was easy to see why many British politicians thought it would be a good idea to allow Hitler to have his Eastern colonies....Britain and France have their colonies, why can’t Germany have hers? And if he takes out the threat of Bolshevism, even better. And back then, there was a lot of merit to that argument.

Churchill was the one of the few who did see that Hitler was no friend to them.

[cripplecreek]

Churchill was the one of the few who did see that Hitler was no friend to them.

Churchill was simply paying attention to what Hitler's supporters were saying in the background.

Workers of all lands, unite — to smash the rule of English capitalism! You young upward-striving nations of the earth, combine to annihilate the old English dragon who blocks the treasures of the earth and withholds from you the riches of the world.

-Robert Ley, German Labor Front leader (Hitler's Trumpka)

[Calvin Locke]

Britain and France have their colonies, why can’t Germany have hers?

Well, *they* did strip Germany of its colonies in the Treaty of Versailles, iirc.