Jim Carroll says: Is the fact that some of the Monarchy were friendly with the Nazis irrelevant? - maybe to some

It seems to be quite possible that the Royals were friendly with the Nazis. That being the case, what do we do with such information? I suppose, especially on the Internet, that the natural tendency is to pass judgment on the Royals and say that they are horrible people worthy of disdain - oh, and by the way, they should pay reparations for the reprehensible misdeeds they committed in the 1930s.

I dunno. Seems to me, that the better response would be to ask why the Royals were sympathetic to the Nazis. That would remove the satisfaction of being able to take the Moral High Ground by condemning "those people," but it might make us learn something. It's clear the the American Hero Charles Lindbergh was also a Nazi sympathizer - but why?

I'm not particularly concerned about separating the sheep from the goats here. I want to know why the sheep did what they did, and why the goats did otherwise. I have a feeling that both did what they did, for what they thought were good reasons.

So, what were those reasons?

-Joe-