Hitler was actually an admirer of the British and initially sought an alliance or other non-hostile arrangement. Only when that didn’t work he went to war with them
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Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 months agoI don’t think they wanted to do that. I believe the plan was to pressure the UK to make deal and once that was done they’d be free to attack USSR
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
My understanding is that Hitler always imagined that the UK would be an ally of his: Germany would be the superpower on the European continent, the UK would have its overseas empire.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Should’ve known the Brits were way too proud for that hah
Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Also, how are you supposed to keep control of an overseas empire without a strong seat of power? Even after winning the war the Brits still lost it.
Im_old@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Apparently not that proud
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/British_Union_of_Fascists
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Doesn’t seem to have all that popular, especially long term