We should remember how the British authorities had forewarning of the blitz of Coventry but allowed it to happen. Remember the German Jews who were locked up by the British authorities. Remember how strikers in northern Italy were bombed by both sides, and how millions were shipped from German camps straight into Soviet ones. Remember the hypocrisy of the statesmen who portrayed the German concentration camps as justification of their own rule and then went on to set up their own camps in Kenya and Algeria. In short, remember that the ruling scumbags in one place always have more in common with ruling scumbags elsewhere than they do with the poor.
War is always brilliant for business.
But above all remember the resistance to the various oppressions. In Britain, for example, many men managed to avoid military service, and many women avoided being forced into war work as cheap labour. Women at Rolls Royce and elsewhere on Clydeside struck for equal pay, often supported by men. In Glasgow engineering apprentices and bus conductresses also struck. When bakers in Dundee refused to work night shifts, their work was taken over by soldiers, who were obviously subject to a much stricter regime.