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The Anti-Nazi Council was a London-based organisation of the 1930s. Initially part of the left-wing anti-fascist movement, it gained political significance when allied to Winston Churchill, though at the time its influence was largely covert.
In particular, he played a key role from the mid-1930s in reshaping Labour's foreign policy, especially as regards re-armament and through the all-party Anti-Nazi Council in which he worked with Winston Churchill. [2] Citrine strengthened the TUC's influence over the Labour Party.
A matchbook cover issued by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to advertise the anti-Nazi boycott. The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights (originally the American League for the Defense of Jewish Rights [1]) was an American anti-Nazi and anti-fascist organization founded in 1933 [2] by Samuel Untermyer to promote an economic boycott against Nazi Germany.
[52] [53] Following the German annexation of Austria, Churchill spoke in the House of Commons, declaring that "the gravity of the events[…] cannot be exaggerated". [54] He began calling for a mutual defence pact among European states threatened by German expansionism, arguing that this was the only way to halt Hitler. [55]
The anti-Nazi boycott was an international boycott of German products in response to violence and harassment by members of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party against Jews following his appointment as Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933.
Originally, Hitler's first cabinet was called the Reich Cabinet of National Salvation, [2] which was a coalition of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and the national conservative German National People's Party (DNVP). The Hitler cabinet lasted until his suicide during the defeat of Nazi Germany.
After a Frankfurt paper reported in October of last year that an AfD official elected to Hesse’s state parliament was known in the neo-Nazi scene, he was excluded from caucusing with them and ...
He joined the Anti-Nazi Council of Eugen Spier, with Churchill and Violet Bonham Carter, Margaret Bondfield and Hugh Dalton. [24] Public opinion at this point of the later 1930s by no means agreed, and John Alfred Spender attacked Sinclair in The Times on foreign policy, claiming that he, like the League of Nations Union , wished for war with ...