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🗓️ 12 October 2021
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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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0:40.0 | Today I'm bringing you the story of Colin Jordan, a British Nazi who held a rally in the |
0:49.2 | centre of London less than 20 years after the end of World War II. Jordan praised Hitler and called |
0:57.0 | for the repatriation of black people and Jews. Some listeners may find some of the material in this report upsetting. |
1:05.0 | There is only one way to do this, the way that Germany showed us the National Socialist way. |
1:15.0 | Trafalgar Square, London, 1962. |
1:19.0 | Colin Jordan, a school teacher from Coventry, addresses a crowd. He is speaking beneath an anti-Semitic |
1:26.3 | banner at the base of Nelson's column which reads, |
1:29.8 | Free Britain from Jewish control. |
1:32.6 | They turned out and they had two lame rovers armoured up and banners, |
1:37.0 | Nazi banners, for enough of them. A couple of thousand people were gathered, |
1:45.0 | but most were anti-fascists. |
1:47.0 | People like Jerry Gable, who'd come to oppose the meeting. |
1:51.0 | Jerry was a community. oppose the meeting. |
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