Do governments in exile count?
Do we try to establish the views of people and then estimate Europe-wide popular opinion?
Wandering the information superhighway, he came upon the last refuge of civilization, PoFo, the only forum on the internet ...
LAz wrote:Most of Europe supported Hitler... right?
Finland
Slovakia (they were liberated from the czechs)
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Croatia (plus bosniaks)
Albania
Italy
Spain (not in war, but supportive)
Switzerland (very supportive)
Sweden (supportive too?)
Denmark (also supported, I think)
Soviet Union (supported until attacked)
Yugoslavia signed a pact, and after the serbs overthrew the government that did not sign it, the result was that most of groups in yugoslavia ended up supporting the nazis (the croats were the biggest supporters!).
As was said, the soviet union supported the nazis. They helped nazi economic growth, and benefited themselves from this too. There is a book on this called "feeding the german eagle".
I am not a nazi sympathizer, but the more I think about it, the more I feel that the nazis actually had a shitload of support behind them.
Some of those puppet governments were popular... really popular.
Switzerland was by no means neutral. It shot down allied war-planes, and let german ones fly over. Switzerland helped hitler with the anti-jew campaigns, did much trade with hitler, and did other things too that helped the nazis.
Bulgaria was an ally and helped in the invasion of yugoslavia. They liked it.
Spain and Finland might not have contributed too much, but the fact remains that they were supportive of hitler, as was most of europe.
Slovaks...You can call it puppet, but they had wide support.
Those countries that SS divisions are supporters. Hence albania and croatia.
Denmark might have towards the end, but not at first.
As was said, the soviet union supported the nazis.
I am not a nazi sympathizer
Spain and Finland might not have contributed too much, but the fact remains that they were supportive of hitler, as was most of europe.
Of course it is true that the western allies were too soft and allowed Hitler too much room,
Notions of the average Croatian's wartime support of the Axis are ridiculously exaggerated and are done so for much more recent, explicitly political, reasons.
peter_co wrote:Although, honestly so is the attempt to portray the Ustashe as a foreign imposition with no level of support among the general population. Yes, the Ustashe never had the level of support that say Antonescu's government had in Romania, but neither were they as isolated as Quisling's clique was in Finland. Obviously it's well-neigh impossible to quantify the level of support for the regime, but one can at least enumerate certain groups that are known to have lent active support to the Ustashe. 1) Urban nationalists (obviously the backbone of the Ustashe) encompassed a significant proportion of urban professional and intellectuals. 2) The Church. The local Catholic Church was even vocal in its support of various Ustashe policies that had religious ramifications, not only the removal of Jews, but also the forced conversion of Orthodox citizens of Greater Croatia (and conveniently did not explicitly object to the fate of those who refused until later on). The second factor is significant not only because it identifies the clergy as a source of support, but more importantly, in light of the influence of the Church on the population at large, it is suggestive that a larger proportion of the total population, even among the peasantry would have had at least a positive view of the regime as well, even if they did not actively support them. 3) And finally, not an insignificant number among the peasantry even participated actively in even some of the most uncouth actions of the Ustashe as Croatian and German official records and private accounts indicate, with villagers in many cases assisting Ustashe bands in rounding up Jews and Roma, as well as participating in the brutal lynchings or forced conversion of Serbs, particularly in the early months.
The very term "Zionist" now has taken on[…]
The world is not a Nazi paradise with color codes[…]
...People tend to empathize with victims of viole[…]
Charles de Gaulle's (French president from Januar[…]