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‘Blue Jerusalem’: How the Tories fought the Nazi tyrants

‘Blue Jerusalem’: How the Tories fought the Nazi tyrants
Winston Churchill takes aim with a Sten gun during a visit to the Royal Artillery experimental station at Shoeburyness in Essex in 1941. (Image: Imperial War Museum via Wikipedia)
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By Michael LuccheseThe Nazi conquest of Europe was, in no small measure, a result of the British Conservative Party’s failures. After the September 1939 invasion of Poland, the public turned on Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain; voters understood that his appeasement policies had encouraged the conditions Adolf Hitler needed to spark the war.The elite version of conservatism Chamberlain represented was largely discredited, and into the breach stepped Winston Churchill’s new coalition government. This new leader’s di...

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