Yes, that is indeed quite true. And, we tend not to talk about it too much these days, but they even had supporters in other countries too (including the US), who admired the changes brought by Hitler as he ascended to power. Of course, hindsight changes everything.
And in the UK. Indeed it seems that the UK government were very close indeed to forming a pact with Hitler.
There was a UK facist movement, and the Daily Mail newspaper(still going) ran the headline 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts', the blackshirts were the UK facists. It is a liberal joke to call them the 'Daily Heil' in return for this.
It just goes to demonstrate the absurdity of the idea of a country being good or bad. People are good or bad, not the rocks they stand on.
> And in the UK. Indeed it seems that the UK government were very close indeed to forming a pact with Hitler.
I don't know how close they were, but Hitler was clearly an admirer of the British Empire, and highly respected them (before the war broke out). He was led to believe that invasion of Poland would not cause France nor England to declare war on Germany (despite the existence of the alliances). Even after the war broke out, there were multiple cases where he tried to negotiate peace with the British Empire, but then Churchill was in power and was dead against the idea.
Similarly, communism in Russia / USSR had plenty of support in western intellectual circles in the early XX century and well past WWII - despite evidence being available that horrible things happen there to regular people.
