"Are you not grateful for that Jim?"
Grateful for what exactly?
Every country did not have national leaders who were Nazi sympathisers - if they had, the outcome of the war would have gone
very differently.
The British establishment sat on its hands and watched Nazi Germany rise to power, while maintaining friendly relations with their leaders.
Not only did they do nothing to halt the rise of fascism in Europe, they criminialised those who did by going off to fight in Spain - Nazi Germany was able to try out its newly reconstructed Luftwaffe on the people of Guernica.
While Germany made its way into Poland and Czechoslovakia, still nothing - " peace in our time" right up to the point when there was no alternative.
It was the people of Britain who made the supreme sacrifice, not those who only stood and waited - and waited - and waited.
As news leaked out about the holocaust, members of the British society were preparing an alternative Government to welcome "Herr Hitler's victory - politicians were overheard describing the rumours of the gas chambers as "the lies of whingeing Yids".
Who an I grateful to - not these people, but the ones who went out and fought and sacrificed their lives - members of my family included.
"You are dismissing an expert because her opinion disagrees with yours"
I certainly am not - I am questioning how genuine or complete that report was - the establishment always conveniently manages find an expert in times of trouble.
Even her report has huge hole in it and admissions that not all could be read
What exactly is your point - wasn't the feller teaching the girl to salute a Nazi sympathiser - did we get him all wrong - did those straight arms and flat palms look like a wave to you???
Personally, I do not believe the whole of the Royal Family to be Nazi sympathisers (somme certainly where) - I don't know what or even if they think politically.
Given the times that the film was made and the fact that it was made and preserved, I find their behaviour distasteful - another nail in the coffin of Royalty, as far as I'm concerned.
I don't believe educated idiots should have any place in the running of any country
Jim carroll