re: #489 HappyWarrior
It already is amazing that they had that many volunteers in the occupied nations despite their overt hatred of those peoples. Now just imagine if they kept it under wraps and used the Anti-Soviet as a driving force. A lot of European right wingers with the notable exception of Churchill did see the Nazis as the lesser evil versus the Soviets.
It also served as a convenient excuse for collaborators like those running the Vichy government. Fighting the communist scourge.