ABSTRACT
The question of Rolf Gardiner's attitudes to Nazi Germany has been much debated, but all too often the premises for that discussion have been flawed. Both sides in the debate have tended to over-simplify the issues. The young Rolf Gardiner, in his tune as an undergraduate in Cambridge, had a number of interests which will be of particular importance in this study. One of the earliest of these interests was Social Credit. In a book written in 1932, however, World without End: British Politics and the Younger Generation, Gardiner gave evidence of aspects of his thinking which were a little more disquieting. Rolf Gardiner presents us with the picture of a fairly typical 'fellow traveller of the Right' of a certain kind. The Nazis were not yet in power in Germany, and he dismissed their efforts as inchoate forms of National-Socialism.
