Nazism

Campaigners have accused Lady Astor of being anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic and a Nazi sympathiser but supporters say she was a victim of misogyny and was "opposed to Nazism".

Their response to antisemitism and Nazism is tame: Jewish women of German birth pass out ribbons reading “We Appeal to German Culture and Conscience.”

The official narrative here creates a parallel reality, in which Russia once again is fighting Nazism and fascism, in Ukraine and across Europe.

But these veterans had actually done that and won, and remain now as some of the last representatives of a generation that fought Nazism and all of the intolerance and barbarism that represented.

Some 51 million Allied soldiers and civilians died during World War Two, united in a pursuit to rid the world of the scourge of Nazism.