See Ian Kershaw do it here.

Yes. It is a continuing mistake to a) think that the Johnny Foreigners don’t really mean what they say and b) to think that they are all reasonable chaps after all (unless they are Jewish).  It is wishful thinking and a convenient rationale for doing nothing always.  Conor Foley and Sunny Hundal are classics of the genre of course.

Kershaw is a fine historian too.