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Patriotism perverted : Captain Ramsay, the Right Club, and British anti-semitism, 1939-40

Title: Patriotism perverted : Captain Ramsay, the Right Club, and British anti-semitism, 1939-40 / Richard Griffiths.
Author: Griffiths, Richard, 1935-
Publication: London : Constable, 1998.

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Description

xi, 372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book is a study of British anti-Semitism in the last six months of peace, and the first year of the Second World War. It shows how, against the backdrop of an endemic British 'social anti-Semitism', a virulent form of this tendency was able to emerge in the late Thirties, above all in a variety of extremist movements. These movements gained their strength from the popular obsession, in 1939, with Jewish responsibility for the approaching war (seen as 'The War of the Jews' Revenge'), and with the myth of the Judaeo-Bolshevik Plot. Inevitably, these views were closely related, in many cases, with pro-Nazism. At the end of his last book, Fellow Travellers of the Right, which dealt with pro-Nazism in the mid-Thirties, the author hazarded the view that, after Hitler's march into Prague in March 1939, this tendency almost died out. The present book is the proof that that generalisation was mistaken."--Jacket.

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Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-350) and index.

Contents

Introduction (starting p. 1) -- pt. 1 The Last Months of Peace -- 1 Anti-Semitism in Britain in the Thirties (starting p. 11) -- 2 The Extremists: Pro-Nazi and Anti-Semitic Groups, up to September 1939 (starting p. 34) -- 3 Patriotism, Pro-Nazism and the Approach of War, 1939 (starting p. 66) -- 4 Captain Ramsay: 1937-8 (starting p. 77) -- 5 Captain Ramsay: Nine Eventful Months, January-September 1939 (starting p. 90) -- 6 The Formation of the Right Club (starting p. 121) -- 7 The Right Club Membership: The Known Activists (starting p. 128) -- 8 The Right Club Membership: Prominent Fellow Travellers (starting p. 143) -- 9 The Right Club Membership: Innocents at Large? (starting p. 158) -- pt. 2 The First Months of the War -- 10 The 'Patriotic Societies' and the Outbreak of War (starting p. 167) -- 11 Popular Anti-Semitism after the Outbreak of War (starting p. 190) -- 12 Various Peace Groups, 1939-40 (starting p. 200) -- 13 Private Meetings and Attempts at Collaboration, 1939-40 (starting p. 216) -- 14 Captain Ramsay and the Right Club, September 1939-May 1940 (starting p. 235) -- 15 Crisis, May 1940 (starting p. 258) -- 16 Captain Ramsay's War (starting p. 273) -- Conclusion (starting p. 293) -- App The Saga of the 'Red Book' (starting p. 300) -- Notes (starting p. 315) -- Bibliography (starting p. 341) -- Index (starting p. 351).

ISBN

0094679207
9780094679207

LCCN

2001431150

OCLC

ocm40608673
40608673
SCSB-539839

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library