He’s absolutely said that he wished we hadn’t gone into battle against Germany. He lost his daddy and still has issues.
Nazi Germany’s treaties weren’t worth spit. Hitler was an a&&hole and Stalin a douchebag.
His father died at Anzio and he never got over it which is sad. It does not excuse his leftist BS. Waters, the humanitarian, practically terrorized fellow founder of Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright.
Wright died recently and he was a quiet man who supposedly was very kind. Waters is not a kind man.
But, now that you've brought it up, unless the human gestation period is significantly longer for British women than for other human females, Roger Waters absolutely DID NOT lose his father during WWII. He was born in 1943.
There were a lot of Brits in the 30s who shared that sentiment. They thought Hitler wasn't such a bad chap, and they would have made a deal with Germany to allow them to have colonies in the East, with the Brits keeping their empire. Back then, the Bolsheviks were the bigger enemy. And even the leftists, people like Waters, admired Hitler's social policies.
Churchill was the only one back then who thought otherwise.