British Fascism

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The rise of fascist states in Germany and Italy during the post-World War I era was accompanied by similar movements in nations across the world; but most of these never achieved the same prominence. This paper examines how Great Britain saw the emergence of the British Union of Fascists, which gained thousands of supporters and how the organization never came to power. It contends that the failure of the fascist movement in Great Britain had economic origins.

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"For the first two years of its existence the British Union of Fascists was successful in recruiting thousands of members in depressed areas across Britain. Their doctrines borrowed much from the established fascist governments in Italy and Germany, which Mosley visited himself. Oswald Mosley's wife, Dianna, was one of the few people in the world to be well acquainted with both Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. The British Union of Fascists "received financial support form Mussolini, and adopted the idea of the corporate state." Mosley also perpetuated the practice of finding racial scapegoats for economic instability-he blamed the Jews, and endorsed Hitler's management of them. Of course, however, this was well before anyone became aware of the scale by which Hitler was massacring them. "

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