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And exactly what kind of people would support such a man?

The British Cult that Worshiped Hitler

By Zachary Peatling
Present History, July 18, 2022

The room was cold, but the atmosphere was electric. Huddled in rows, thirty inmates of Peveril Internment Camp on the Isle of Man, were held in taut expectation. James Larratt Battersby, known around the camp as ‘The Mad Hatter’, had rallied these men, promising them a spectacle of a speech. Battersby was known for being a powerful salesman, his stories from his time in the British Union of Fascists and his own rousing speeches had helped him sell this proposition.

The man they had come to see? Thomas St. Barbe Baker. His reputation preceded him. He was loud, outspoken and known as a radical Christian. Some had their suspicions however, and pegged him as more of a con artist than convert. Whether by fortuitous coincidence or by design, he had made friends with the richest people in the camp, and seemed to target those with purchasable loyalties and money to spend.

This didn’t dent the excitement of the men that had filled the room to hear him speak. Baker said he had a direct revelation from the Holy Spirit he had to share. And, as he stepped up in front of these men, there did seem to be a sense of some sort of presence around him. Battersby would say that this was because of his connection to God. Others would say it was his own cocksure confidence and heightened self-perception.

As Baker began, gesticulating, his voice filling the room, Battersby was enthralled, the men enraptured and something was being born. Something that would change the lives of Battersby, Baker and the other men and women that would join them. A new group, a new organisation, a new League of Christian Reformers.

As Baker reached the end of his stirring rhetoric, his brow was beaded with sweat, his voice becoming hoarse. Even before he finished his final words, the men before him leapt to their feet, applauding, raising their arms and shouting ‘Heil Hitler!’

This was the moment that marked the beginning of the League of Christian Reformers.

That was 1942. But, the story begins a decade earlier. Oswald Mosley, a politician of limited success, founded the British Union of Fascists in 1932. And it was here that all of the founding members of the League would find their starts.

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From what I've seen, "Christians" who would harm the weak, the meek and those who turn the other cheek, have black holes where their souls should be.