Well, the SS raised whole formations of men from all of the various occupied countries...to fight for the Reich in its elite Nazi battalions. I'm sure they would have raised similar formations from the British population, had they succeeded in occupying the UK.

Remember: nothing succeeds like success. A lot of people just naturally like a winner...and the Germans appeared to be winning for quite some time there.

Lady Jean - I must take exception to your one statement: "(If Nazis had any brains, they wouldn't be Nazis.)"

Ha! Having brains is NO prerequisite to having scruples...or good judgement about which political cause to back...specially when it happens on homeground and appears to be in the ascendency. To the contrary, there were many very intelligent, highly capable, and downright brilliant people on the Nazi side in WWII...as there were on the other side as well...as there were in Japan and Soviet Russia and every other combatant nation.

It is a common human conceit to imagine that all one's political opponents must be by definition stupid. Not so! The Left often makes that facile mistake when sizing up everyone on the extreme right, and vice versa too.

There are always some very bright people involved in every great or ignoble cause.