Why was the British Monarchy so Pro Nazi?

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Let's think about this objectively. Before the war, Britain had acquired the largest empire in the world, so it is ridiculous for the British to claim that they went to war with Germany because they really cared about the sovereignty of other nations or because they wanted to save the world from imperialist aggression. Indeed, when the Soviet Union invaded Poland a few days after Germany did, Britain didn't declare war on the Soviet Union.

Hitler didn't want a war with Britain. For one thing, he wanted to see the British Empire preserved, and he didn't think Germany would be able to do it. British Conservatives wanted war with Germany because they were conservatives and ganging up on the most powerful nation on the continent is what the British had "always done" (balance of power and all that).

Churchill himself was an imperialist. He wanted to preserve the British Empire. Presumably Edward VII did too. In which case Edward was the smart one, not Churchill and his fellow conservatives.

In fact, some have suggested that Edward's marriage to Wallis Simpson was just a pretext for removing him from the throne, since even by 1936 his pro-German sympathies were not going down well with anti-German elements in the British establishment.

It wasn't "the Communist side" as such, the Communists were merely a faction of the Republicans (anti-Fascists).

I also think there's a bit of conflation going on here, particularly as the most prominent member of the Communist army in Spain was also the biggest critic of Stalin in the West.

The Royals have German ancestors, so their initial attraction to Germany was understandable.

Queen Victoria was married to a German here children (of which there were many) were all half German. Britain had a German kind, George I. It goes back a long way .

ruveyn

No they weren't. Are you watching Alex Jones?

The British king who gave up the throne to marry an American divorcee was certainly sympathetic to the Nazi cause, at least till the war started.

The British king who gave up the throne to marry an American divorcee was certainly sympathetic to the Nazi cause, at least till the war started.

How was he?

He expressed admiration for the Nazis being able to remake their country in their image, and I would imagine he believed Hitler was the shield of the west against Stalin. Luckily, he had already stepped down from the throne when he was expressing such opinions. Admiration for fascism was shared by many British and American citizens prior to the outbreak of WWII.

How come Oswald Mosley did not replace Winston Churchill?