Posted on 07/21/2015 3:54:24 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
There were very few independent Muslim nations at the time. Turkey was neutral. The Brits toppled the old Shah of Iran because he was pro-Nazi. Saudi Arabia was pro-Allies.
There was lots of collusion between the Nazis & Muslims.
The Arab world was on the fence throughout the war, waiting to see who was “the stronger horse”, the Allies or the Nazis.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem visited Hitler in 1941 & was on the Nazi payroll until the end of the war.
The Nazis raised a Muslim SS division in the Balkans, made up of Bosnian Muslims. Hell for Christians there as well as Jews.
Mein Kampf in Arabic was and is a bestseller in the Middle East to this day.
Formations of uniformed Iranians & Palestinians goosestepping & giving the stiffarmed salute are SOP.
And, `if it’s anti-Jewish, it’s got to be good’ governs the Muslim mindset to this day.
Nazism fits to a T.
Mussolini’s Fascism was all the rage with the American left wing elites just during that time too.
John Kennedy’s father, Joe, was a Nazi sympathizer too.
Well, we all know the answer — its time for the UK to wipe out all traces of Edward VIII and his entire family from the history books the same way the Leftist lynch mob in the US is trying to wipe out all traces of Confederate history.
Surprising that the National Socialists aren’t saluting Barry, Bernie or Hillary.
Excellent observation!
The Hess flight was 1941 but you are quite right that it remains a rather puzzling affair. Whispers, rumours, and other such fluff which may or may not amount to anything substantial, suggest that it is the Duke of Kent rather than the Duke of Windsor who could have revealed more about that. Maybe we will know the full story one day, maybe not.
None of this is new. How the left-wing in Britain like to salivate at such meagre morsels. Elizabeth II’s behaviour during her reign has been almost faultless, leaving them frustrated and impotent. At last, a family movie which proves, PROVES, that the Royal Family were Nazis! After all, they were of *German* descent, weren’t they?!
The Duke of Windsor’s alleged fascist sympathies are based on evidence and deserve study and discussion, but this is certainly not a new sensation. That film though, where they are clearly playing around, lampooning a figure then common in the Newsreels, proves nothing.
Lampooning fascism, rather than shrinking from it in terror and revulsion, was another trait of the 1930s. It wasn’t just the aristocrats at Clivedon toasting Herr Hitler and pining for a similar dose of governance in London. To poke fun was also common. Take PG Wodehouse’s novel ‘The Code of the Woosters’ which wasn’t published until 1938:-
Bertie Wooster confronts the leader of the ‘black shorts’ Sir Roderick Spode:
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: “Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?”
Very old news.
Also the British royal family was far more German than English in ancestry.
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