Comments by "Arnold Hubbert" (@arnoldhubbert6779) on "Danish Nazi Collaborator who betrayed her husband and brother to the Nazis - Grethe Bartram" video.

  1. I don't know too much about my Danish and Norwegian relatives' activities during the war, however, I've read letters between them and my Scandinavian American grandparents where they expressed their fear of the Soviet communists, especially the Soviet attempt to take over Scandinavia post war. I don't make any excuses for any Scandinavians who betrayed their countrymen (for which there is NO excuse), however, the main motivation for many of those who joined with the Germans during the war to fight against the Soviets, did so because of their anti communist beliefs and fear of communist aggression, which, we can't deny, was real and serious (they would have taken over Scandinavia if they could have, like the rest of eastern Europe). Most of them were young and naïve, and weren't able to discern the threat of both the communists and and Nazis. Just the communists. Most of them thought they were also fighting to protect their homeland. The fact that both the Danish and Norwegian governments actively promoted such collaboration, contributed to their misguided participation.
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