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Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet
(16 November 1896 ? 3 December 1980) was a British
fascist
politician.
He rose to fame in the 1920s as a
Member of Parliament
and later became disillusioned with mainstream politics.
He became the leader of the
British Union of Fascists
(BUF).
[1]
Mosley was the sixth
baronet
to hold the title, which had been in his family for over a century.
[2]
After belonging to both the
Conservative Party
and the
Labour Party
, Mosley set up his "New Party", which became the British Union of
Fascists
. He was anti-semitic (against jews), and there were street riots in London and
Leicester
in 1935.
Mosley was
interned
in May 1940, and the BUF was banned. He was released in 1943. Internment is putting people in prison to prevent their being able to act against the national interest. Its main use is to protect public safety. It has not been done in Britain since
WWII
.
Disgraced by his association with fascism, Mosley moved abroad in 1951. He spent most of the rest of his life in
Paris
.
