Chapter 1. On The Idle Hill Of Summer
Ironically, the last European enemy of Hitler to be conquered was the last one to get rid of his legacy. The United Kingdom had to wait until 1976, eight years after the death of the Führer and two years after the dissolution of the Third Reich.
However, the dictatorship instituted around Oswald Mosley was already on the ropes since the 1960s (and worse was to come when the world price of oil skyrocketed in the 1970s). The Age of Stagnation (a period of negative economic, political, and social effects in the Third Reich that affected its puppet regimes too) began in the last year of life of Adolf Hitler and would last until the 1980s. It was to hit badly the British economy, as the lack of reforms worsened the effects off the crisis on Britain.
As the attempts of reform by Albert Speer, the successor of Hitler, failed in front of the strong anti-Nazi stance of US president Richard Nixon, by the end of the 60s it became quite obvious that the days of the Third Rich were numbered. Speer simply failed to modernize the Reich, a task that was beyond his capabilities. Also, when he tried to unify the offices of President and Chancellor (they had been separated along with the position of the Party Head and gien to Goring, von Krosigk and Goebbels in the Last Will of Hitler), his ambition proved to be far above his capabilities and the ensuing fight for power only helped to further damage the situation.
The writting was on the wall, and even the terminally ill Oswald Mosley could see it clearly. When Mosley became persuaded that Nixon was not going to allow any continuation of the III Reich under any kind of form, he began to prepare the transformation of the Mosleyte Britain into something that the US president could accept and, at the same time, that could keep the spirit of the regime that had ruled Britain since 1946.
That Mosley attempted that is a telling prove of the delluded state of mind of the British dictator in the last months of his life.
Ironically, the last European enemy of Hitler to be conquered was the last one to get rid of his legacy. The United Kingdom had to wait until 1976, eight years after the death of the Führer and two years after the dissolution of the Third Reich.
However, the dictatorship instituted around Oswald Mosley was already on the ropes since the 1960s (and worse was to come when the world price of oil skyrocketed in the 1970s). The Age of Stagnation (a period of negative economic, political, and social effects in the Third Reich that affected its puppet regimes too) began in the last year of life of Adolf Hitler and would last until the 1980s. It was to hit badly the British economy, as the lack of reforms worsened the effects off the crisis on Britain.
As the attempts of reform by Albert Speer, the successor of Hitler, failed in front of the strong anti-Nazi stance of US president Richard Nixon, by the end of the 60s it became quite obvious that the days of the Third Rich were numbered. Speer simply failed to modernize the Reich, a task that was beyond his capabilities. Also, when he tried to unify the offices of President and Chancellor (they had been separated along with the position of the Party Head and gien to Goring, von Krosigk and Goebbels in the Last Will of Hitler), his ambition proved to be far above his capabilities and the ensuing fight for power only helped to further damage the situation.
The writting was on the wall, and even the terminally ill Oswald Mosley could see it clearly. When Mosley became persuaded that Nixon was not going to allow any continuation of the III Reich under any kind of form, he began to prepare the transformation of the Mosleyte Britain into something that the US president could accept and, at the same time, that could keep the spirit of the regime that had ruled Britain since 1946.
That Mosley attempted that is a telling prove of the delluded state of mind of the British dictator in the last months of his life.
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