ABSTRACT
The activities of many of the socially prominent people who were involved, in various ways, with pro-Nazi or anti-Semitic activities before and/ or during the war had been very similar to those of the people from lesser strata of society who were arrested under the DR 18B legislation in mid-1940. Yet very few of them shared that experience of detention. Sir Oswald Mosley, Captain Ramsay and Admiral Domvile were interned, it is true, as were a number of lesser ‘gents’ such as Captain Robert Gordon-Canning, Captain H.W. Luttman-Johnson and Captain George Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers; but an extensive array of dukes, barons, earls, viscountesses and assorted aristocrats, together with other ‘pillars of society’, managed to escape such a fate.
