By Nick Crowson
Via exploring new proof accumulated from diaries, memoirs and mins, dealing with Fascisms presents the entire historic context of the Conservative Party's international coverage from 1930 to 1940. N.J. Crowson offers substitute and unique interpretations of the reactions of assorted components of the Conservative celebration to the deepening foreign obstacle. by means of exploring new proof collected from diaries, memoirs and mins, dealing with Fascisms presents the whole old context of the Conservative Party's overseas coverage from 1930 to 1940.
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112 Even ‘Chips‘ Channon felt betrayed by Hitler’s action and felt ‘his callous desertion of the PM is stupefying. 113 What the invasion of Prague proved was that Nazi ambitions were no longer purely confined to restoring the injustices of Versailles. The Rhineland had been Germany’s own backyard, Austria was historically linked with Germany, whilst the Sudeten Germans had been denied self-determination; but the annexation of the Czech rump was unjustifiable. The Czechs were not ethnic Germans and the invasion could be explained as being nothing less than blatant aggression.
However, from 1938 it was hard for Conservatives to ignore the Nazi regime’s potential for oppression and inhumanity This revealed itself following the Anschluss. 62 German treatment of their Jewish populations certainly pricked the moral Attitudes and perceptions 31 consciences of many Conservatives and played an important role in their decreasing receptivity to Chamberlain’s efforts to appease Hitler after Munich. One joke circulating around parliament after Kristallnacht illustrated the changing perception of the dictators.
Such links emphasised the connection of the Anglo-Saxon races of Europe and stressed the common teutonic heritage. Whilst it is difficult to define the extent to which these cultural influences encouraged Germanophile sentiments, they nevertheless must have at least suggested to Conservatives that Germany could be a civilised nation. It is perhaps significant that unlike during the First World War there was no attempt during the next war to purge the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts of their Germanic composers.
