• Rogue
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      Not necessarily. The war became a turning point for many of our established views today.

      At the time anti-semitic views were common in the US, and Hitler didn’t expect the UK to stand against him.

      If the UK had stayed neutral, Germany might well have succeeded and anti-semitism may well have become normalised in western views.

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      Or maybe Spain, by staying out of the war and keeping Hitler on read they made it possible for the allies to actually gain enough power. Winning through pacifism.