Nadene Goldfoot
Britain was almost handed over willingly to Germany by the nudging of Chamberlain's pressure on Winston Churchill, and their darkest hour may not have happened if they had cared about what Germany was doing to the Jews. They could have noticed as early as 1933 how Germany was treating their Jewish population, depriving them of all the necessities of their lives as German citizens. During the first six years of Hitler’s dictatorship, government at every level—Reich, state and municipal—adopted hundreds of laws, decrees, directives, guidelines, and regulations that increasingly restricted the civil and human rights of the Jews in Germany. In their 25-point party program published in 1920, Nazi Party members publicly declared their intention to segregate Jews from “Aryan” society and to abrogate their political, legal, and civil rights. Had they any decent thoughts about treatment of Jews? They were related to the Royals of Germany!!!
Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS (/ˈtʃeɪmbərlɪn/; 18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British politician of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, ceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. Following the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, Chamberlain announced the declaration of war on Germany two days later and led the United Kingdom through the first eight months of the war until his resignation as prime minister on 10 May 1940.
Chamberlain didn't follow up on treatment of Jews. He didn't care. All of England must have accepted what was happening to the Jewish population of Germany as something not out of the ordinary and maybe even expected from a country such as Germany who was known for their militaristic viewpoints of their leaderships even before Hitler.
Some later historians have taken a more favourable perspective of Chamberlain and his policies, citing government papers released under the thirty-year rule and arguing that going to war with Germany in 1938 would have been disastrous as the UK was unprepared. And whose fault was that?
Chamberlain succeeded Stanley Baldwin as prime minister on 28 May 1937. Was Baldwin responsible? He became Prime Minister of the national government in June 1935 and in the autumn he won a general election, promising to continue to improve national defences. When seeking to avoid war with Mussolini’s Italy over Abyssinia, in order to focus effort against Hitler’s Germany, his Cabinet was embarrassed by an early disclosure of a compromise settlement (the Hore-Laval pact). In retrospect, the national government’s policy of combining armed deterrence with efforts to bind Hitler and Mussolini into a general European settlement seemed not enough. After the Second World War broke out in 1939, Baldwin became a leading target for those – especially Winston Churchill – who thought more could have been done to speed up rearmament and prevent war.
1933
March 31
Decree of the Berlin City Commissioner for Health suspends Jewish doctors from the city's social welfare services.
April 7
The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service removes Jews from government service.
April 7
The Law on the Admission to the Legal Profession forbids the admission of Jews to the bar.
April 25
The Law against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limits the number of Jewish students in public schools.
July 14
The Denaturalization Law revokes the citizenship of naturalized Jews and “undesirables.”
October 4
The Law on Editors bans Jews from editorial posts.
They would have been alarmed and would have started their own readiness to face them as an enemy, but they were caught with nothing for their armed services. They were at a point of losing thousands of their soldiers and just giving up again, hoping for good treatment from Hitler. How absurd! Just look at how the Jews were being treated!
Yet once upon a time, Hitler had Jewish doctors. 1908: August–December, Linz, Austria. The Hitler family send you the best wishes for a Happy New Year, in everlasting thankfulness. AH.1 Dr Eduard Bloch was a general physician, practicing on the main street of the poor neighborhood of Austria’s third largest city, Linz. A promise was given to this Jewish doctor by a grateful patient: “I shall be grateful to you forever, A.H.,” followed by a postcard sent from Vienna. Eduard Bloch was born in 1869 to a Jewish family in Frauenburg, a small southern Bohemian village. He studied medicine in Prague, enlisted in the army of the Habsburg Empire, and was sent to Linz. After his discharge from the army he decided to settle in Linz, where he practiced for 37 years, serving the underprivileged and earning the title of “the poor man’s doctor” . He charged patients according to their financial status; he often took nothing at all. Evidently Hitler had either changed his attitude towards Jews or never cared at all, period. That Bloch was a Jewish doctor made no difference to him. Jews were his scapegoat; someone to blame all their ills upon.
The British Expeditionary Force was trapped at Dunkirk and Calais, and Britain begins preparing for a German invasion. Against the advice of the War Cabinet Churchill orders Brigadier Nicholson in Calais to lead the 30th Infantry Brigade to distract the enemy and buy time for the evacuation of soldiers from Dunkirk. Layton, Churchill's secretary, tells Churchill that her brother was killed during the retreat.
Benjamin Disraeli, born in London, December 21, 1804, happened to be the prime minister of Britain earlier, from 1874 to 1880, 1868 to 1868, and he was the first and only Jewish Prime Minister to date. Because of the Jews' refusal of conversion to Christianity, they were expulsed from England in 1290 and were not allowed back in till 1655. England had been without Jews for 365 years. The English community have had many years building up prejudice against the Jewish people.
Former King Henry VIII with wife, Wallis Simpson, Hitler
After ruling for less than one year,
Besides that, English Royals were intermarried with the German Royalty. That turned their cheeks against Jews as well.
Dr. Karina Urbach, a German historian, believes that whatever information Hitler shared with Carl Edward, the Duke of Coburg — who was a grandson of Queen Victoria, and a close blood relative to the current British monarchy — it was damning enough to warrant an assassination request. Coburg, though, would manage to escape such a drastic fate and eventually died in 1954 of natural causes, aged 69.
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Leopold Charles Edward George Albert, German: Leopold Carl Eduard Georg Albert; 19 July 1884 – 6 March 1954) was the last sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, from 30 July 1900 until 1918.. Urbach has recently published “Go Betweens For Hitler,” a book that explores how members of the aristocratic class across Europe worked as secret negotiators for Hitler during the interwar years.
In 2015 Urbach took part in uncovering a 1934 film clip of the British royal family making the fascist salute. She has since then been campaigning with The Times and The Guardian for the release of Interwar period material from the royal archives. In 2020 she published Das Buch Alice (Alice's Book), The story of her grandmother Alice Urbach, a Jewish chef in Vienna whose bestselling cookbook was expropriated by the Nazis. Karina Urbach discovered that Alice was not the only Jewish author who had been replaced by an ‘Aryan’ stooge. Alice never saw her book published again under her name, but in 2020 the German magazine Der Spiegel ran a story about the findings of Alice's Book. As a consequence, Alice's publishing house issued a reprint. The English language version of Alice's Book appeared in May 2022, published by MacLehose Press and translated by Jamie Bulloch.
All the acts of war that the Brits had to deal with, coming so close to losing their country to the Germans that they had to even use their citizen's boats to rescue their own soldiers with, a country on the seacoast without sufficient naval ships, would not have happened if they had cared about the lives of Jews in Germany in the first place.
The film, Darkest Hour from 2017, now on Netflix, shows the events leading up to how Britain was almost lost to Germany. The film is an account of Winston Churchill's early days as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War and the May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis, depicting his refusal to seek a peace treaty with Nazi Germany amid their advance into Western Europe.
Have the kleenex handy; at times it's a tearjerker. Just think how that would have changed the world and where we all would be.
Resource;
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/antisemitic-legislation-1933-1939
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain
https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/benjamin-disraeli-the-earl-of-beaconsfield
https://www.timesofisrael.com/british-archives-hiding-royal-familys-rife-anti-semitism-in-1930s-says-historian/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/edward-viii-abdicates#:~:text=After%20ruling%20for%20less%20than,American%20divorc%C3%A9e%20Wallis%20Warfield%20Simpson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkest_Hour_(film)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4128594/
https://www.jmberlin.de/en/evidence-ascendancy-and-exclusion-signs-oscar-hirschbergs-doctors-office
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