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How the Western Allied Power treated the Colored People during World War 2

This pattern of people fighting for national freedom denied to them as racial outsiders characterized much of the experience of Allied colonial subjects in general during the war. In spite of widespread opposition from Indian politicians, the British government of colonial India declared that questions of self-rule and independence would have to  wait until after the war was over. The British also used the war to reassert imperial authority in the Middle East, overthrowing the government of  Iraq in 1941 and the Egyptian regime in 1942.160 The clear message was that, at least until the defeat of the Axis, colonialism would remain firmly in place. The fact that imperial and Commonwealth soldiers fought for Britain also did not shield them from British racism. Black soldiers in particular received lower pay, worse rations, and far fewer chances for advancement than their white counterparts. The British military generally refused (as in World War I), to deploy them in Europe; they also tried to prevent contacts between them and African American soldiers for fear that the antiracist attitudes of the latter would undermine the empire.161

The French situation was different, since colonial troops did not enter France until the Liberation. Yet the Gaullist argument that Free France represented France as a whole tended to mask the diversity of both the Free French and the Resistance. In arranging for French troops to liberate Paris in 1944, for example, De Gaulle bowed to American demands for the exclusion of Black colonial soldiers, so that the LeClerc  Division, which entered the French capital on August 25, 1944, consisted largely of Spanish Republican exiles. The liberation of Paris must be a white liberation.162

The United States during the war also mobilized people of color to an unprecedented degree while at the same time stubbornly retaining traditional racial standards. World War II represented the greatest overseas war effort the nation had ever seen, the first time America (or any nation) had waged such a massive struggle on two oceans at the same time. Over 16 million Americans served in the armed forces during  World War II, more than any other war effort before or since. Moreover, the tremendous mobilization of production that made the United States the “Arsenal of Democracy” required vast labor resources, prompting the migration of millions to new jobs and transforming the nation’s industrial landscape.163 This massive military and economic mobilization took place in a new political context, for America had changed significantly since World War I. The New Deal represented one of the most  progressive regimes, and political cultures, in US history, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s attitudes toward race were far removed from those  of Woodrow Wilson.164

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In general, however, racial discrimination and segregation persisted in America during World War II. Whatever his personal feelings, Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition depended upon the support of white southern legislators, who remained adamantly opposed to policies promoting racial equality. Roosevelt may have denounced lynching, but the US  government never enacted federal anti-lynching legislation. During the  1930s many New Deal social programs, such as the Federal Housing  Authority, discriminated against Blacks, and this pattern continued during the war.175 Most notably, in spite of some Democratic promises to the contrary, America’s armed forces remained segregated for the duration of the conflict. As in World War I but to an even greater extent, the  US military fought around the world for white freedom.176

Racism in World War II was not just a matter of government policy.  During the war race riots erupted in American cities, usually involving white attacks on Blacks and other peoples of color. In June 1943 the so-called Zoot Suit Riots (named after a clothing style made popular by  Black jazz musicians and embraced by minority youth) broke out in Los  Angeles, involving attacks by thousands of white soldiers and sailors primarily against Latino young men.177 A scant two weeks later Detroit experienced its own major race riot, prompted by attempts to integrate the city’s housing and defense industries.178 Public transportation and
other facilities remained largely segregated, and not just in the South.  At times this went so far as to require Black soldiers in uniform to give up seats on trains to German prisoners of war.

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White Freedom The Racial History of an Idea Tyler Edward Stovall 2021 Princeton University Press page 250 - 253

From your link:

Even in war time and under the influence of propaganda , 19 July 1941 Hitler stated:

“Stalin is one of the most extraordinary figures in world history. He began as a small clerk, and he has never stopped being a clerk. Stalin owes nothing to rhetoric. He governs from his office, thanks to a bureaucracy that obeys his every nod and gesture.

This is a criticism, not a compliment!

https://www.quora.com/What-did-Hitler-and-Stalin-think-of-each-other

Hitler once summed up Stalin brilliantly: “Stalin started out as a desk clerk and he is still a desk clerk.” What he meant, of course, is that Stalin thought and acted like a mediocre bureaucrat, not a statesman and visionary like himself.

More Hitler quotes that shows Hitler's dislike for Stalin (rooted in anti-Turanism, not merely anti-communism):

"When Russia barricades herself within her frontiers, it's to prevent people from leaving the country and making certain comparisons. That's why Stalin was obliged to introduce Bolshevism into the Baltic countries, so that his army of occupation should be deprived of all means of comparison with another system."

"A people can prove to be well fitted for battle even although it is ill fitted for civilisation. From the point of view of their value as combatants, the armies of Genghiz Khan were not inferior to those of Stalin (provided we take away from Bolshevism what it owes to the material civilisation of the West)."

"Stalin pretends to have been the herald of the Bolshevik revolution. In actual fact, he identifies himself with the Russia of the Tsars, and he has merely resurrected the tradition of Pan-Slavism. For him Bolshevism is only a means, a disguise designed to trick the Germanic and Latin peoples. If we hadn't seized power in 1933, the wave of the Huns would have broken over our heads."

"Stalin is half beast, half giant. To the social side of life he is utterly indifferent. The people can rot, for all he cares."

"Stalin is an anarchist educated in an ecclesiastical college! Our newspapers ought to ask whether he and Churchill sang psalms together in Moscow!"

It is only correct to say that Hitler dared not underestimate Stalin:

"Stalin, too, must command our unconditional respect. In his own way he is a hell of a fellow ! He knows his models, Genghiz Khan and the others, very well, and the scope of his industrial planning is exceeded only by our own Four Year Plan."

When Hitler uses the term 'respect', it is in the sense of viewing Stalin as a serious threat not to be taken lightly, not in the sense of viewing him as a rolemodel.

From your link:

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Even in war time and under the influence of propaganda , 19 July 1941 Hitler stated:

“Stalin is one of the most extraordinary figures in world history. He began as a small clerk, and he has never stopped being a clerk. Stalin owes nothing to rhetoric. He governs from his office, thanks to a bureaucracy that obeys his every nod and gesture.

This is a criticism, not a compliment!

https://www.quora.com/What-did-Hitler-and-Stalin-think-of-each-other

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Hitler once summed up Stalin brilliantly: “Stalin started out as a desk clerk and he is still a desk clerk.” What he meant, of course, is that Stalin thought and acted like a mediocre bureaucrat, not a statesman and visionary like himself.

More Hitler quotes that shows Hitler's dislike for Stalin (rooted in anti-Turanism, not merely anti-communism):

"When Russia barricades herself within her frontiers, it's to prevent people from leaving the country and making certain comparisons. That's why Stalin was obliged to introduce Bolshevism into the Baltic countries, so that his army of occupation should be deprived of all means of comparison with another system."

"A people can prove to be well fitted for battle even although it is ill fitted for civilisation. From the point of view of their value as combatants, the armies of Genghiz Khan were not inferior to those of Stalin (provided we take away from Bolshevism what it owes to the material civilisation of the West)."

"Stalin pretends to have been the herald of the Bolshevik revolution. In actual fact, he identifies himself with the Russia of the Tsars, and he has merely resurrected the tradition of Pan-Slavism. For him Bolshevism is only a means, a disguise designed to trick the Germanic and Latin peoples. If we hadn't seized power in 1933, the wave of the Huns would have broken over our heads."

"Stalin is half beast, half giant. To the social side of life he is utterly indifferent. The people can rot, for all he cares."

"Stalin is an anarchist educated in an ecclesiastical college! Our newspapers ought to ask whether he and Churchill sang psalms together in Moscow!"

It is only correct to say that Hitler dared not underestimate Stalin:

"Stalin, too, must command our unconditional respect. In his own way he is a hell of a fellow! He knows his models, Genghiz Khan and the others, very well, and the scope of his industrial planning is exceeded only by our own Four Year Plan."

When Hitler uses the term 'respect', it is in the sense of viewing Stalin as a serious threat not to be taken lightly, not in the sense of viewing him as a rolemodel.

In India, we see these clerical pen pushers (mainly Brahmins) being given decision-making powers due to the colonial bureaucracy. And we can see the utter failure of governance in the Indian state. Feudal landowners + mercantilistic oligarchs + clerical bureaucrats are the ones ruling India. In contrast, the monarchy limited the power of all three.