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That's why so many Europeans (like Churchill) were perfectly fine with Hitler's fascism and agreed with his views on race and *controlling* minorities; why American corporations did business with the Nazis for years; why the French elite so sheepishly succumbed to, and so easily infused into, Nazi rule— they shared in that white supremacist worldview too.
They only turned against Hitler when he decided to do to the rest of Europe what they had been doing against the peoples of the Global South for centuries. When he attempted to use the same violent subjugation against white, western Europeans that they saw reserved solely for Brown and Black peoples.
It's a gross misrepresentation of history that everyone in the west was always unequivocally morally opposed to Hitler and Nazism.
This idea has been popularized through mass culture post-WWII, and I feel it's part of the reason why the likes of Hollywood endlessly creates films fixating on that time period— to hammer home how not only evil the Nazis were (which they were), but more so to create a point of differentiation between the west and Nazi Germany— to exclusivize them as a unique evil and their crimes as unlike anything before or since. When we know Europeans exercised similar tactics of systemic genocide across Africa and the Americas far before.
When we know their ideas were far more popular and agreeable throughout the western world at the time, correlating to centuries of similar logic that justified European imperialism, colonial violence, and dehumanization of those otherized.
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