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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.