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Originally Posted by Catfish
re August the fact that there were national socialists in the US as there were a few in England does not necessarily mean that Hitler had started those movements directly, he sure saw his ideology as an idea which time had come; so he of course did not hinder them and did a bit of support – but there was not so much real/effective support in the end, also the main part of the population(s) were against Hitler's idea of an NS-like government in their countries. Seeing what had happened in Germany, together with some democratic background, their governments also were a bit wiser in quenching certain development in its early stages.
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Yeah but Hitler didn't start the nazi movement in Germany either, he just rode it to power. However I was talking about the perception of nazi world domination. It doesn't really matter if that was truely their ultimate goal or not, it's what the rest of the world believed were their intentions and given the amount of territory and nations they had attacked and overrun it's not an unreasonable belief. Whether the English or American nazis would have subjugated themselves to Hitler I guess depends on how much help they needed to gain power. Like you said neither were popular enough to win over their countries but if they came to power using German military might they would at least be beholding to them.