The Imperial Fascist League was a British political movement founded by Arnold Leese in 1929. Doctor Arnold Spencer-Leese (1877-1956) was a noted veterinarian, anti-Semite and fascist politician, born in 1877 in Lytham, Lancashire, England. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The IFL was a small movement with never more than a few hundred members, including its "Fascist Legions" who wore black shirts and were organised for street battles. Initially using the fasces as its symbol the movement became more admiring of Adolf Hitler and after he came to power it adopted the swastika superimposed on the Union Jack as its new emblem. A statue of Cincinnatus resigning from dictatorship by returning the Roman fasces Fasces (the plural, almost a plurale tantum, of the Latin word fascis, bundle) symbolise summary power and jurisdiction. ...   Adolf Hitler? (April 20, 1889–April 30, 1945) was the Chancellor of Germany from 1933, and Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor) of Germany from 1934, to his death. ... The swastika (卐) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles either clockwise or anticlockwise. ... Flag Ratio: 1:2 The Union Flag or Union Jack is the flag most commonly associated with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and was also used throughout the former British Empire. ...

Like their contemporaries in the British Fascists the IFL sought a version of fascism that would be tailored to British peculiarities. Amongst their ideas was a call for Parliament to be converted into a lower house drawn from the occupations and an upper chamber to consist of the great and the good on an appointed basis. Anti-Semitism was a central theme of the IFL and the party had contacts with the notorious Julius Streicher before the War. The extremism of the League was legendary. Leese accused Mosley of being under the control of the Jews ("the British Jewnion of Fascists"was a favourite retort) , and Leese remains perhaps the only European fascist leader to openly call for the extermination by gas of the entire Jewish race, in print, long before the German Nazis actually put the process into operation. The British Fascists were the name subsequently taken by the British Fascisti in an attempt to Anglicise them. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... Julius Streicher at the Nuremberg Trials Julius Streicher (February 12, 1885 – October 16, 1946) was a prominent Nazi prior to and during World War II. He was the publisher of the Nazi Der Stürmer newspaper, which was to become a part of the Nazi propaganda machine. ... Mosley is a family name. ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ...

The arrival of the British Union of Fascists saw a huge slump in IFL membership as Oswald Mosley was much more highly regarded than the relatively unknown Leese. The two groups were on bad terms and more than once there were reports of battles between their supporters. Eventually the BUF proved too strong a check to IFL ambitions and by the time war broke out they had largely disappeared. The flag of the British Union of Fascists showing the Flash and Circle symbolic of action within unity The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a political party of the 1930s in the United Kingdom. ... Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (November 16, 1896 - December 3, 1980) was a British politician principally known as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. ...