OSWALD MOSLEY
(Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet)
Often called Blackshirts
Often called Blackshirts
Often called Blackshirts. He is one of the few politicians in the world who saw Fascists and Nazis in the middle of the political spectrum.
In 1934 Sir Osward, an admirer of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, advocated that Hitler be made Dictator of England. Mosby was referred to as “Public Enemy Number One” and at this speech, protestors climbed up to the rafters and shouted protests. Some of his supporters, thugs dressed in black shirts, climbed up to confront and battle the protestors. Mosley wanted no violence to mar his appearance but had trouble controlling his Blackshirts. His supporters paid him little heed. Over 100 people were injured and dozens arrested. Often called Blackshirts
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet was a British politician who rose to fame in the 1920s as a Member of Parliament and later in the 1930s, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, became the leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF). Mosley had not been knighted, but he was the sixth baronet, with a title that had been in his family for more than a century at his father's death on 21 September 1928.
