Abstract
The chapter considers MI5's rather ambiguous attitude towards Fascism during the 1930s, both of the domestic variety in the form of the British Union of Fascists and as represented by the National Socialist ‘Auslandsorganisation’ in Britain (the Foreign Organisation of Nazi Party members). The ‘Auslandsorganisation’ had close links with members of the German Embassy in London which was also involved in espionage, as illustrated by the case of the German Socialist refugee-turned-spy, Hans Wesemann. However, MI5 also had a valuable source of information within the Embassy itself, in the person of the aristocratic German diplomat Wolfgang Gans zu Putlitz, a covert anti-Nazi.
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