![]() ![]() To Churchill, the British would be second to none. Hitler underestimated the depth of Churchill’s reverence for England’s imperial traditions. ![]() As he saw it, the United Kingdom would retain its colonies but assume the role of Germany’s junior partner in world domination. He sought to emulate, not supplant, the British Empire: the German empire would comprise the Slavic countries to the east. Hitler believed that the so-called Nordic race, which in his view included Germans and Britons, was destined to rule the world. What is it about Churchill and Britain that Hitler misunderstood in this regard? You write that Hitler never fully embraced the Indian nationalist cause because he expected Britain to reach some accommodation with Germany that allowed it to retain most of its empire, and specifically India. I put six questions to her about her book and some of the pushback it has drawn from Churchill’s defenders:ġ. ![]() Madhusree Mukerjee, a former editor at Scientific American and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, has published a bombshell book about Churchill’s attitudes toward India and the steps that he took during World War II that contributed to a horrific famine in Bengal in 1943. ![]()
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