ABSTRACT
After the crackdown of May-June 1940, the pressures on those pre-war Nazi sympathisers who had not been detained was intense. Some had, of course, taken a straightforward patriotic line once war had been declared in 1939, with those of an age volunteering for military service; and at the opposite extreme there were others who were to continue their pre-war agenda even after June 1940 (at times to the extent of undertaking subversive activities); but there were many intermediary positions between these two extremes, as people tried to adjust to the new situation. One of these was the attempt, made by a number of people, to cover their tracks by publicly drawing attention to their repugnance for pro-Nazism and by denouncing their former colleagues. An outstanding example of this is the relationship between three former ‘fellow travellers of the Right’, who had for years been friends and neighbours. This situation was to change radically now, owing to their diering reactions to their previous activities, reactions which give us some inkling of the problems of such people, and of how history became rewritten in the process.
