Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2019-04-09
Books mentioned on Part One: Mosley: The British Hitler Who Inspired the Christchurch Shooter
In Episode 55, Robert is joined by Katy Stoll and Cody Johnston to discuss Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.
Robert Evans discussed Blackshirt by Bruce Graeme, Tiger by John Strege, Fascism by Oswald Mosley, The Greater Britain by Oswald Mosley, and The Doctrine of Fascism by Benito Mussolini.
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Blackshirt
Discussed“Their wealth had been built up in the 16th century by his ancestor Nicholas Mosley who the book Blackshirt describes as quote one of the swindling sheep farmers who at the time were expropriating the common lands of the English people.”
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Tiger
Discussed“John Masters in Bugle and Tiger created the legend that Mosley, detested by his brother, Officer Cadets, was thrown out of a window. In fact, in seeking recruits for retaliatory action, he slipped on a ledge and fell, slightly injuring a leg.”
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Fascism
Discussed“He wrote a book a few years later titled Fascism 100 questions asked and answered that explained why he decided to use the same word as the Germans and Italians rather than invent a new term that might have been more palatable to English ears.”
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The Greater Britain
Discussed“So, so after establishing the British Union of Fascists, Mosley outright or right away published a book called The Greater Britain, which he hoped would polish the bad reputation fascism had gotten over all those deaths from the uh Spanish Civil War and the bombing of Guaica and all the people that the Nazis had put in concentration camps, all”
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The Doctrine of Fascism
Discussed“This was basically him cribbing a concept from an essay by Ben Bonito Mussolini, the doctrine of fascism, which said this quote, "If the 19th century was the century of the individual, liberalism implies individualism. We are free to believe that this is the collective century and therefore the century of the state."”
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