The question that thoroughly decent men like Crosfield should have been asking after a visit to Hitler’s Germany is why, if government by brutal suppression, corrupt law and the merciless persecution of all opposition was unacceptable in Britain, should it have been any less so in the Third Reich? The tragedy is that, by turning a blind eye to such searing issues, these gallant soldiers only succeeded in bringing closer the very conflict that they so desperately sought to avert.
