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Between 1933 and 1945, 100,000 gay men were arrested; from as early as 1929 the party paper, the Völkischer Beobachter, had conflated homosexuality and Judaism: one of the many "evil instincts" that characterised Jews, the paper claimed, was that they tried to promote sexual relationships between siblings, men and animals, and men and men. Such "perverted crimes", the paper concluded, should be punished by banishment or hanging.<br>
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These developments were enthusiastically received in Britain. The Times demurely welcomed the fact that "the Führer [Adolf Hitler] has started cleaning up". That same year, 1934, Lord Rothermere's [Harold Harmsworth] Daily Mail came out for Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists: some of the staff even went to work in black shirts, while the Sunday Pictorial ran a competition to find the nation's prettiest female fascist. Antisemitism was universal: when Bernays, whose great-grandfather had been Jewish, stood for parliament, his campaign posters were plastered over with stickers saying "JEW". In the House of Commons, Robert Tatton Bower bellowed at the London-born Labour MP Manny Shinwell: "Go back to Poland". In a debate, Sassoon was told by the Clydesider Labour MP David Kirkwood that he was no Briton, but "a foreigner".<br>
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<i>source: Article 'The Glamour Boys by Chris Bryant review - the rebels who fought for Britain' by Simon Callow; www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/06/the-glamour-boys-by-chris-bryant-review-the-rebels-who-fought-for-britain; The Guardian; 6 November 2020</i>

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