Europeans only hate Nazis because they tried to take over Europe. Had they instead propose a partnership like the EU (I mean…), they would’ve had 0 problems. If the mask off no nonsense Nazis were resurrected right now and changed their stances to wanting to genocide Russians and Romani only, there would be no institutional European opposition, except the ones that also want to include Jews :eric-andre:
US General George Patton explicitly kept saying out loud that "we're fighting the wrong people" towards the end of the war. He was also fond of questioning the necessity of denazification after the war. Then of course there was Operation Paperclip, Operation Gladio, Operation Unthinkable, Operation Bloodstone, the Gehlen organization and its CIA ties, Adolf Heusinger in NATO, the Schnezz Truppe, the pivoting away from Denazification to capitalist restructuring under Adenhauer and the so called Christian Democrats, the huge injections of Marshall Plan money into building up West Germany immediately after the war, which was framed as an "economic miracle" of capitalism rather than a giant state-sanctioned giveaway to the "former" Nazis.
Europeans only hate Nazis because they tried to take over Europe. Had they instead propose a partnership like the EU (I mean…), they would’ve had 0 problems. If the mask off no nonsense Nazis were resurrected right now and changed their stances to wanting to genocide Russians and Romani only, there would be no institutional European opposition, except the ones that also want to include Jews :eric-andre:
I'm fond of saying that the problem Winston Churchill had with Nazi Germany was the "Germany" part
US General George Patton explicitly kept saying out loud that "we're fighting the wrong people" towards the end of the war. He was also fond of questioning the necessity of denazification after the war. Then of course there was Operation Paperclip, Operation Gladio, Operation Unthinkable, Operation Bloodstone, the Gehlen organization and its CIA ties, Adolf Heusinger in NATO, the Schnezz Truppe, the pivoting away from Denazification to capitalist restructuring under Adenhauer and the so called Christian Democrats, the huge injections of Marshall Plan money into building up West Germany immediately after the war, which was framed as an "economic miracle" of capitalism rather than a giant state-sanctioned giveaway to the "former" Nazis.
Marshall Zhukov rather famously said, standing in the ruins of Berlin; ""We liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it""
Worth remembering that almost all the Jews who survived the Holocaust in Eastern Europe did so by fleeing to the USSR.