"British Free Corps" Topic
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| Tango01 | 29 Jan 2020 12:43 p.m. PST |
"The British Free Corps, originally called the British Legion of St George, was created by the Nazis in 1943. The British Free Corps had no military value in World War Two but its founder, John Amery, was hanged for treason in 1945. At the beginning of World War Two, John Amery, the son of Leo Amery, Winston Churchill's Minister for India, drifted around Europe with seemingly little direction in his life. He called himself a socialist. However, Amery also believed that the world faced a Jewish/Soviet plot to overthrow western civilisation. His views became known in Berlin. Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, realised the importance Amery could play in the propaganda battle with Britain – a government minister's son supporting the cause of Nazi Germany. Amery received an invite to visit Berlin…"
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| Cerdic | 29 Jan 2020 1:37 p.m. PST |
He sounds like a bit of a pillock… |
 Legion 4  | 29 Jan 2020 4:06 p.m. PST |
Certainly sounds like treason and being hanged was justified, IMO. |
| mjkerner | 29 Jan 2020 5:26 p.m. PST |
I always thought it was an interesting bit of history for Kurt Vonnegut to include a British Free Corps member unsuccessfully attempting to recruit prisoners in Dresden in Slaughterhouse Five. I assume it actually happened to him during his imprisonment. |
| 4th Cuirassier | 31 Jan 2020 2:51 a.m. PST |
Being a socialist and siding with the Fascists was of course Oswald Mosley's own journey. And in Stalin's Russia your internal passport stated your nationality, which could include "Jewish". My favourite villain in "The Eagle Has Landed" was Harvey Preston, the British SS man. Wonder why they left him out of the movie? |
| Tango01 | 31 Jan 2020 12:08 p.m. PST |
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