How would DU react to the 1930s and Hitler?

[melm00se]

139. Based upon hindsight

the analogy is suspect.

if you limit yourself to the information that was available then (say in early 1937) and allowed yourself to consider only new information as it unfolded over time, the analogy is (only slightly) better.

As to DU specifically: Prior to the American entry into World War II, there were small anti-war pockets in the USA. They were comprised of Fascists, Socialists (sort of Communists) and true Pacifists.

The Fascists supported Hitler for ideological reasons.

The Socialists supported Hitler (as well as Stalin) due their mutual non-aggression pact (Molotov–Ribbentrop). Once, however, Germany invaded the Soviet Union (September 1941), their support of the Hitler-Stalin alliance disappeared overnight. The timing of this loss of support has stoked the "Commies are coming" and the "Commies are here" furnace for the decades that followed.

As for the Pacifists, this small community continued to protest against the war but, eventually, even their attitudes shifted as the war progressed.