Enough has been written (and used to legitimize just causes) about the duplicitous role played by certain national minorities, stateless nations, and even newly independent nations during the rise of Nazism and Fascism to power in the 1930s. It will soon be a hundred years old, it should be noted briefly. If the Flemish had enjoyed their national rights then, probably no one would have been tempted to fall into the clutches of a Hitler who, knowing the situation of this stateless nation, sought to use it against the Kingdom of Belgium. If Ireland had not suffered centuries of British rule, it would surely have acted differently during the Second World War. If minorities oppressed by certain states had not heard of this oppression, Nazism could not have presented itself, in any way, as a potential advocate.