Norway: literally occupied by the Nazis.

Spain: ran by a Nazi-sympathetic fascist at the time.

Ireland: newly formed Republic that was imprisoned via colonial occupation and civil war and didn't really have any direct skin in the game.

  • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 month ago

    I would imagine that for the Irish it hardly mattered to them whether the genocidal fascists they fought were german or british, and resulted in a sort of let-them-fight