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Witness History: Colin Jordan and the British Nazi rally

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Colin Jordan and the British Nazi rally

12/10/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Colin Jordan and the British Nazi rally

The teacher who formed Britain's Nazi party and the antifascists who fought against them.

A British schoolteacher led a Nazi rally in London's Trafalgar Square in 1962. He praised Hitler and called for Britain to be freed from what he called 'Jewish control'.

In 1960s Britain extreme right-wing groups were on the rise. A schoolteacher called Colin Jordan led a Nazi rally in Trafalgar Square in central London.  He openly praised Hitler and called for Britain to be freed from what he called 'Jewish control'. He was also a white supremacist who called for the repatriation of black people. Claire Bowes has been speaking to Gerry Gable, a Jewish anti-fascist activist who helped infiltrate Jordan's National Socialist Movement as well as helping secure the arrest of his former wife, Francoise Dior, for inciting arson attacks on two London synagogues.

(Photo: British neo-Nazi politician Colin Jordan and French socialite Francoise Dior, UK, 7 October 1963; she is wearing a swastika shaped pendant and behind them, a portrait of Adolf Hitler. Credit: Felkin/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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