John Amery Quotes


I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.


Citations

Amery, John. Proclamation of the Legion of St. George. Paris, Apr. 1943.

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John Amery
John Amery
  • Born: March 14, 1912
  • Died: December 19, 1945
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Activist, Member British Free Corps

John Amery was a pro-Nazi British fascist. In 1942, while in Germany during the Second World War, he proposed the formation of a British volunteer force made up from former prisoners of war as part of the German military. The idea became the British Free Corps, a small unit of the Waffen-SS.