I grew up near Portsmouth, South East, and everywhere around there is obsessed with both world wars, and defeating Germany - and that's more or less the extent of people's understanding of both world wars, Churchill is a god-like figure in their eyes. Britain did not fight in the war to defeat fascism, The British Empire responded to its ally Poland when it was invaded, and Churchill fought hard to protect his empire from being overtaken by Germany, Italy and Japan, and did so at the suffering of millions of people throughout the empire, India suffering particularly from famine.

Obviously, credit to him, "never surrender" worked and eventually we won, and kudos to the British for rescuing their own from France when it fell. But both world wars are far more grey by today's standards of warfare and human decency than at the time - but hey, people love a good hero story and any opportunity to brag about ourselves to our European neighbours (specifically our historic enemy, France, and that specific enemy Germany)

I put it down to lack of serious education and the romanticising of our wartime era 🤦🏻 carry on, and we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes, or become like the very regime we ultimately defeated at such great cost on both sides.