In May 1940, Britain faced imminent defeat at the hands of Nazi forces in Europe. Britain’s leaders feared a German invasion of the homeland.
On 10 May, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, and Winston Churchill took over. One of the first things Churchill did was to order the arrest and detention of all known Fascist leaders in Britain under the wartime defence regulations.
The fear was that, in the event of an invasion, British Fascists would rush to help the invading Germans, and that Sir Oswald Mosley would order his many followers to take up arms against the government. The evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk at the end of May and beginning of June confirmed the likelihood of an imminent German invasion of Britain.
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