While Britain and other countries turn a blind eye to the rise of nazism in Ukraine and Europe this becomes very relevant.
The video of a young future queen practising a nazi salute is not the point, but the support of a whole ruling class of Britain for Hitler is.
While every country has dark spots in their history, Britain is the Land of the Double Standard and excels in lecturing other countries, above all Russia.
British Fascism: Why British Nobility Hailed Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany
The video of a young future queen practising a nazi salute is not the point, but the support of a whole ruling class of Britain for Hitler is.
While every country has dark spots in their history, Britain is the Land of the Double Standard and excels in lecturing other countries, above all Russia.
British Fascism: Why British Nobility Hailed Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany
22
July, 2015
A
17-second video depicting young Queen Elizabeth II performing a Nazi
salute has prompted a fierce debate among experts and the public.
What other disturbing facts have the Allies swept under the carpet?
While
discussing the victory in the Second World War, historians usually
praise Russia, Great Britain and the United States for their joint
contribution in defeating Nazism — the true plague of the 20th
century.
Surprisingly,
the West now turns a blind eye to the emergence of neo-Nazi movements
in Eastern Europe and in the Baltics, demonizing the USSR and today's
Russia instead. Has this historical lesson already been forgotten?
Unspoken
Story of Indian Holocaust: UK Remains Silent About Its Atrocities
The
West is still in denial of the fact that the Anglo-Saxon political
and financial establishment played a significant role in the Third
Reich's rise. Furthermore, some representatives of the British
nobility even went so far as to openly support Adolf Hitler, kicking
off their own fascist organizations and conspiring with Nazi Germany.
Paradoxically,
back in the early 1930s neither London, nor Washington considered
Hitler's Third Reich as a "threat," facilitating the "Nazi
economic miracle" and the industrial growth of the would-be
military monster.
After
Adolf Hitler and his Brownshirts seized power in Germany in 1933,
Britain started "grooming" Nazi Germany "as best as
she could," American economist Guido Giacomo Preparata narrated
in his book "Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the
Third Reich."
In
July 1934 Britain and Germany concluded the Anglo-German Transfer
Agreement — one of the "pillars of British policy towards the
Third Reich." By the end of the decade Nazi Germany had become
Britain's "principal trading client."
Furthermore,
in December 1934, Montagu Norman, the Governor of the Bank of England
from 1920 to 1944, "advanced the Nazis a loan of about $4
million in order to 'facilitate the mobilization of German commercial
credits': that is new money to pay old debts — or better said, a
gift," Preparata elaborated.
And
that is not all. Both Britain and the US made a number of highly
lucrative arms deals with Nazi Germany. For instance,
Vickers-Armstrong, the prestigious British arms manufacturer,
provided Berlin with heavy weaponry.
When
asked in 1934 to give assurance that the company was not used for
secret rearmament of Germany, Chairman of Vickers Herbert Lawrence
answered evasively: "I cannot give you assurance in definite
terms, but I can tell you that nothing is done without the complete
sanction and approval of our own government."
Meanwhile,
the US was selling Nazi Germany most advanced airplane engines, while
American companies Pratt & Whitney, Douglas, Bendix Aviation, to
name but a few, provided German companies — BMW, Siemens and others
— with patents and military secrets, Preparata pointed out.
According
to the author, for the British and American establishement Nazism was
seen as a convenient way of destabilizing Europe and turning it into
a big unified market place, as well as a driving force that could
dismantle the USSR.
Sir
Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists
Remarkably,
Great Britain also boasted its own influential fascist party.
"It
seems impossible to believe that the people of such an entrenched
democratic country as Great Britain could ever harbor mainstream
fascist leanings. However, fascism was not always such a vilified
ideology in the West. In the late 1920s and 1930s in Great Britain,
fascism was often admired by the public," wrote US historian
Bret Rubin, Princeton University, in his article "The Rise and
Fall of British Fascism: Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Union of
Fascists."
According
to the scholar, the earliest fascist groups in Great Britain emerged
in the 1920s, including the British Fascisti, the National Fascisti
and the Imperial Fascist League. However, these organizations lacked
both leadership and a coherent ideology.
However,
in 1932 British aristocrat Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet and popular
ex-member of Parliament, founded the British Union of Fascists (BUF),
launching "fascism into the British mainstream." The
organization swiftly brought together alomost 40,000 new members.
Although Oswald Mosley failed to make further political headway, he
attracted a lot of followers and established close ties with top Nazi
officials, including Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels and
the infamous German Fuhrer.
In
1940, the BUF leader along with other active British fascists
was interned under Defence Regulation 18B and his party was
proscribes. However, in 1943 Mosley and his wife were released
because of Sir Oswald's "poor health."
Interestingly
enough, neither Mosley's chronic disease, nor the British government,
prevented the infamous British fascist leader from continuing
his work after the Second World War. He formed the Union
Movement and made a series of vain attempts to return
into politics. His speeches attracted British youths and in 1977
he was even nominated as a candidate for Rector of the
University of Glasgow.
In
1940, the BUF leader along with other active British fascists
was interned under Defence Regulation 18B and his party was
proscribes. However, in 1943 Mosley and his wife were released
because of Sir Oswald's "poor health."
Interestingly
enough, neither Mosley's chronic disease, nor the British government,
prevented the infamous British fascist leader from continuing
his work after the Second World War. He formed the Union
Movement and made a series of vain attempts to return
into politics. His speeches attracted British youths and in 1977
he was even nominated as a candidate for Rector of the
University of Glasgow.
Sir
Oswald Mosley, leader of the Pro-Fascist Union movement, gestures
while addressing a union meeting at Porchester Hall in London, United
Kingdom, on April 16, 1956
What
Secrets is Buckingham Palace Hiding?
Mosley
was not the only aristocrat echanted by Nazi imperial ideas. The
British king, Edward III, who gave up the throne to marry
American divorcee Wallis Simpson, openly sympathized with the
Nazis.
British
diplomat Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart wrote in his diaries that
in the early 1930s Edward, then the Prince of Wales,
expressed his full support to Hitler's dictatorship, turning a
blind eye to the persecution of Jews.
After
abdicating in 1936, Edward, who became the Duke of Windsor,
visited Germany in 1937 and met Adolf Hitler personally.
Confidental data, released in 2003, indicated that Nazi
officials planned to reinstall him as a king once Germany
invaded Great Britain.
Curously,
the Duke's sympathies with Hitler were not unusual for those
of his class at this time. According to some reports,
George VI and his wife wanted to avoid a direct military
conflict with Nazi Germany at all costs and sent birthday
greetings to Adolf Hitler weeks before he invaded Poland.
Edward
VIII reviewing a squad of SS with Robert Ley, 1937
Baron
Gunther von Reibnitz, the father of Princess Michael of Kent,
was a Nazi party member and a honorary member of SS. Duke
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Charles Edward, the brother of Princess
Alice, officially joined the Nazi party in 1935 and gained the
rank of Obergruppenführer. He also served a member of the
German Reichstag.
Renown
historian and sociologist Manuel Sarkisyanz revealed in his
book "From Imperialism to Fascism: Why Hitler's India Was
to Be Russia" that the "longlist" of Great
Britain's open sympathizers of fascism also included W.
Churchill's son Randolph, the family of Lord Ridsdale, Lord
Lamington, Lord Londonderry, and sociologist Houston Chamberlain.
It
is worth mentioning, that aforementioned Montagu Norman, 1st Baron
Norman, the Governor of the Bank of England, was a close
friend of German Central Bank President Hjalmar Schacht, a
devoted supporter of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party.
Manuel
Sarkisyanz highlighted out that Hitler himself borrowed much
of his ideas from racist British scholars. The infamous
Furer considered ruthless British colonial rule in India a model
for his future "colonial Russia."
Remarkably,
eugenics, a doctrine aimed at confirming the concept of "white
supremacy," was "invented" in Great Britain and
then enthusiastically adopted by Nazis.
According
to British and German racists, the Anglo-Saxons (including
Germans), were destined to dominate the world, Sarkisyanz
exposed.
Rather
embarrassingly, it was the famous author of "The Invisible Man,"
Herbert Wells, who stated laconically: "There is only one sane
and logical thing to be done with an inferior race, and
that is to exterminate it."
Unsirprisingly,
Buckingham Palace has not rushed to open its archives and unveil
the truth about relations between the Windsors, the British
aristocracy and the Nazis. According to some experts, much
of the British royal correspondence documenting their ties
with top Nazi officiails was destoryed.
A
17-second piece of footage, recently released, depicts then
seven-years-old Queen Elizabeth II raising her arms in a Nazi
salute
This seems like an appropriate place for this meme.
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