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Prior to 1938, as the Nazi regime attempted to court the British into an alliance, Nazi propaganda praised the "Aryan" character of the British people and the British Empire. However, as Anglo-German relations deteriorated, and the Second World War broke out, Nazi propaganda vilified the British as oppressive German-hating plutocrats.
In the years after World War II, Canada's permissive immigration policies enabled many alleged Nazi war criminals to settle in the country. [20] [21] [22] An especially large number of former SS Galizien members (relative to their total number) migrated to Canada from the United Kingdom, where they had been detained.
To weaken the British Empire, Nazi Germany expressed support for hardline Indian revolutionaries seeking India's independence. Berlin sponsored an active propaganda campaign. [33] Although the Indian National Congress officially opposed Nazi, it refused to support the British war effort and its leaders were imprisoned. Nevertheless the India ...
After the start of World War II, America was opposed to and suspicious of foreign propaganda. This did not stop Great Britain from conducting an ongoing propaganda campaign in the United States regarding India. [21] As a former colony of the British Empire, America was automatically sympathetic to calls for Indian independence.
March 1935 was the first time that the return of former German colonies were put into official negotiations by Nazi Germany to the representatives of the British government, and so the "colonial question" remained a constant (while relatively minor) topic of negotiation between the German and British governments. [172]
On 1 August 1914, Germany invaded Belgium, and Britain declared war to protect its ally France. Canada as a member of the British Empire was automatically at war. Many German men in Canada were reservists in the German military who escaped to the neutral United States, where they booked a passage to return to the Fatherland. [8]
“The fact that a veteran who served in a Nazi military unit was invited to and given a standing ovation in Parliament is shocking,” said Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Canadian ...
Loyalty to Britain still existed, however, and during the darkest days of World War II for Britain, after the fall of France and before the entry of the Soviet Union and the United States as allies, Canada was Britain's main ally in the North Atlantic providing naval defence against German submarines.