Those are all great points and a good read, although I had assumed you were talking about the pro-liberal civilians in those nations rather than liberal leadership of them. I find the public are more likely to be idealist and might be more skeptical of nationalism and socialism (which the nazi party pretended to be)
I mean, Blackshirts were kind of a big deal in the UK and there was a Nazi rally held in Seattle, WA. Public opinion is swayed by what leaders and capitalists put in newspapers, so fascism wasn’t exactly unpopular. That said, control of information wasn’t so all encompassing and smoothed out in bias for liberalism as it is now, so you could have a big CPUSA branch and the German American Bund in the same town where Democrats were in the actual seats of power.
Those are all great points and a good read, although I had assumed you were talking about the pro-liberal civilians in those nations rather than liberal leadership of them. I find the public are more likely to be idealist and might be more skeptical of nationalism and socialism (which the nazi party pretended to be)
I mean, Blackshirts were kind of a big deal in the UK and there was a Nazi rally held in Seattle, WA. Public opinion is swayed by what leaders and capitalists put in newspapers, so fascism wasn’t exactly unpopular. That said, control of information wasn’t so all encompassing and smoothed out in bias for liberalism as it is now, so you could have a big CPUSA branch and the German American Bund in the same town where Democrats were in the actual seats of power.