Don’t forget - many COMMUNISTS here agreed with his policies and supported him which was why we stayed out of the war for so long.
It wasn’t until he turned against Russia that the communists decided he wasn’t a “true” socialist and demanded war.
Then went revisionist history about how Hitler was always evil.
And to this day, Stalin and the USSR are excused all their evils.
And our “ally” Stalin, was perfectly fine with Hitler running roughshod over Europe, until Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.
Without crucial supplies from the Soviets, it’s doubtful that the Germans could have had the success in France that they did.
“It wasn’t until he turned against Russia that the communists decided he wasn’t a “true” socialist and demanded war.”
One of the sillier ideas floating around FR is the idea that the Soviets, or Hitler, ever considered Nazi Germany to be socialist. It’s my bet then no one possessed of that idea has ever read Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich or any other serious study of Nazism.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939 that set up the invasion of Poland was a pure alliance of conveniece between two gangster regimes. Two weeks after it was signed WWII erupted.