The National Socialist League was a short lived political movement in the United Kingdom immediately before the Second World War. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

The NSL was formed in 1937 by William Joyce, John Beckett and John Angus MacNab as a splinter group from the British Union of Fascists. The leaders claimed that the League had been formed because BUF leader Oswald Mosley refused to make Adolf Hitler the main inspiration instead of Benito Mussolini, although Mosley contended that the three had simply been sacked from their paid posts in the BUF as part of a cost-cutting exercise. 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... William Joyce (April 24, 1906–January 3, 1946), known as Lord Haw-Haw was a fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II. He was born in New York, to Irish parents who had taken United States nationality. ... John Beckett (1894-1964) was a leading figure in British politics between the world wars, both in the Labour Party and Fascist movements. ... 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. ... Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945), a German politician who was the founder of the Third Reich (1933-1945), is widely regarded as one of the most significant and reviled leaders in world history. ... Benito Mussolini created a fascist state through the use of propaganda, total control of the media and disassembly of the working democratic government. ...

Whatever the truth the NSL began fairly healthily as Joyce secured the financial backing of Alex Scrimgeour, a stockbroker, and soon the NSL was able to publish its own mewspaper, The Helmsman, adopting 'Steer Straight' as the party motto. Rising far right figure A. K. Chesterton would go on to speak at a number of NSL functions, although he never formally joined the movement. However the party failed to attract members as war with Hitler began to look increasingly inevitable and initial optimism faded. The term far-right refers to the relative position a group or person occupies within a political spectrum. ... Arthur Keneth Chesterton (1896 — August 16, 1973) was an ultra right_wing politician and journalist, instrumental in founding a number of right_wing organisations in Britain, primarily in opposition to the break_up of the British Empire, and later adopting a broader anti-immigration stance. ...

The NSL began to unravel in 1938. Beckett became disillusioned with Nazism after the Munich Crisis and left the NSL, re-emerging later in the British Peoples Party. Scrimgeour died soon after this and surprisingly left nothing to the NSL in his will, cutting off essential funding. Membership fell to around 40 people by 1939 and before Joyce emigrated to Germany he entrusted MacNab with the job of winding the League up. It had come to an end just before war broke out and did not re-emerge. 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 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 Munich Agreement was an agreement regarding the Munich Crisis between the major powers of Europe after a conference held in Munich in Germany in 1938 and concluded on September 29. ... The name British Peoples Party has been taken by a number of right-wing political parties in British political history. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...