“I was not Hitler’s ally. As far as I and Hitler go, the answer is this. I declared in a speech in 1934, that we could never have any racial policy in Great Britain because we were running a multiracial Empire. The Germans were antisemites and I was not.”
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INTERVIEWER: If Hitler had survived the war, would you have been in favour of his being tried and convicted for war crimes?
OSWALD MOSLEY: Yes, I think any one who has committed crimes should always be tried under whatever law exists.
INTERVIEWER: And do you think he should have been, or would have been, found guilty?
OSWALD MOSLEY: I have said again and again that the murder of the Jews in the concentration camps was an outrageous and vile crime. While I don’t think nearly so many were killed as are supposed to be killed, that doesn’t matter. Any crime, the murder of any defenceless prisoner, is a crime, and everybody must detest it.
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INTERVIEWER: Would you say that the wrong side won the war?
OSWALD MOSLEY: No, certainly not. And I offered to fight in the last war the moment the life of Britain was at stake.
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INTERVIEWER: Would you say it would have been better, or not been better, if Hitler had never existed?
OSWALD MOSLEY: No, certainly better that he should not ever have existed, because his existence led to 25 million Europeans being killed.
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INTERVIEWER: Sir Oswald, do you now, looking back with the hindsight and knowledge of history, blame the Jews or Hitler for the Second World War?
SIR OSWALD MOSLEY: I blame both: Hitler for driving east, before he had got a diplomatic arrangement with us; Jews, for gradually persuading us, or the British people or government, to do absurd things which were bound to result in war. I was against both mistakes.