What did you do during the war? : the last throes of the British pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 /

What did you do during the war? : the last throes of the British pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 /

This book is a sequel to Richard Griffiths's two highly successful previous books on the British pro-Nazi Right: Fellow-Travellers of the Right : British Enthusiasts for Nazi Germany, 1933-9; and Patriotism Perverted : Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British Anti-Semitism, 1939-40. It follow...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Griffiths, Richard, 1935- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2017.
Series:Routledge studies in fascism and the far right.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Political aspects > Great Britain.
Right-wing extremists > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Nazis > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Fascists > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Failure (Psychology) > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1936-1945.
Great Britain > Relations > Germany.
Germany > Relations > Great Britain.
Table of Contents:
  • PART ONE: PUNCTURING MYTHS ABOUT THE "PHONEY WAR" PERIOD
  • To fight or not to fight : the myth of Mosley's patriotism
  • The reception of Bryant's Unfinished Victory : the myth of public unanimity against Nazi Germany in early 1940
  • PART TWO: PEACE AND WAR, HIGH-MINDEDNESS AND LOW CONNECTIONS : THE DUKE OF BEDFORD AND THE PEACE MOVEMENT
  • Evangelical anticapitalism : the strange case of the Duke of Bedford
  • "How can the Germans be blamed? : the infiltration of the Peace Movement
  • PART THREE: DEFENCE REGULATION 18B, AND ITS AFTER-EFFECTS
  • The watershed : the arrests of May-June 1940 and their aftermath
  • The re-emergence of extreme Right-wing movements in Britain, 1940-45
  • PART FOUR: RENEGADES
  • "Long before 1939 I had become an admirer of the Nazi system" : five British broadcasters for Nazi Germany
  • PART FIVE: PRO-NAZISM, PATRIOTISM, HATRED, FEAR, REMORSE : THE EXTRAORDINARY VARIETY OF MOTIVES AMONG FORMER "FELLOW-TRAVELLERS"
  • "Have you found many Lavals among your Galloway friends?" : wartime and post-war disputes between three "Fellow Travellers of the Right"
  • "I wrote a very full and strong letter to the King" : two would-be negotiators
  • "The internment of a person of her social standing might give the public a wrong impression" : the charmed lives of various "pillars of society"
  • "His impetuous nature, obstinacy and flawed judgement" : a bull in a china shop
  • "You know the Jew racket as well as I do" : the vagaries of the "back-to-the-landers"
  • PART SIX: AFTERMATH
  • "Change and decay in all around I see" : further post-war decline
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX: Rogues' Gallery.