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    Research & Study Aid: Prussian Poland

    This is the first in our series of Brief Research-Study aids. Each is designed to help you get started with your genealogical (historical) research. Please do NOT consider this an exhaustive set of materials. What was/is Prussian-Poland? The following articles/ links should provide you with a reasonable historical perspective on those former regions. These regions have been completely rearranged and reconstituted at least three times since 1918. The populations living in these geographic regions today may NOT be related to those who lived there before World War I (1914). The Prussian Partition (of Poland)- Wikipedia.  As with most Wikipedia articles, pay special attention to the bibliography at the end, to…

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    British (UK) Nazism

    Quoting from: Martin Pugh https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199594788.013.0027 Pages: 489–506 Published: 18 September 2012 Traditionally, fascism in Britain has been seen in fairly narrow terms as a phenomenon of the 1930s associated with Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists (BUF). This approach to the subject made it easy to account for the fortunes of fascism as a movement essentially marginal to British society and thus of limited significance. The Union Movement that Mosley founded in 1948 campaigned for imperial control of Africa, a united Europe, and an end to coloured immigration. But this did not amount to a full fascist programme; the movement found itself caught halfway between the conventional…