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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
The way the history of WWII and Nazism is taught in general leaves out a lot of details and really over simplifies things. Nazism and similar ideologies were a movement happening almost everywhere at the time (including in Palestine whose leaders allied with Hitler). Germany was the place where it took hold enough to form a government first, but it was happening at varying rates elsewhere. That is why some governments were easy to topple and install puppet regimes. There were already prefab governments in waiting that could be unpacked that had substantial support, kind of like their own Project 2025 plans. It's not that unlike the situation today with far-right authoritarianism increasing all over the place. The French really do get a bad rap for a lot of it though. While the government fell quickly, the large portions of the military fought throughout the whole war, sometimes as free French, and often under the command of other allies like Britain. If people want to call their politicians cowardly, fine, but many of the soldiers were extremely brave.
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In a way, the Spanish Civil War was actually the start of WWII as essentially a proxy war for nations on either side of the ideologies at play there.