@Thinkerbell He was taking about the empire. Canada, Australia and so on. At the time the US was neutral to the Nazis, the Holocaust and all that, and seemed content just to make dollars out of the situation. Only Pearl Harbour changed that.
To this day we don’t have accurate numbers on the number of ethnic German Americans who fought in the SS. It’s eluded to in an episode of Band of Brothers. The Soviets claim to have execute 82 of them on the Nazi retreat from Minsk, but we’ll never know real number.
Churchill said, "the New World, with all its power and might."
Somehow, I don't think he was talking about Canada or Trinidad and Tobago. 😂
And actually, FDR was aiding Britain and the USSR with lend lease before Japan attacked. It was the American populace that mostly wanted to stay out of war, particularly after the absolute mess the Europeans had made in settling WW1.
Some German-Americans went back to Germany to fight in WW2? Big deal. About 2000 (Asian) Indian POWs joined the Wehrmacht for the purpose of freeing India from British colonial rule.
Azad Hind (Free India) stamps were printed in Germany as propaganda to help the anti-British movement led by Subhas Chandra Bose with the aid of Japan.
