Major-General J.F.C. Fuller

Major General J.F.C. Fuller, who was to achieve fame as the "father of mechanised
warfare" and the blitzkreig strategy adopted by the armies of the Third Reich, was one of Aleister Crowley's original followers, whose enthusiasm for Crowley was later to be matched by his support for Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists.



"[Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler] challenged the myth of Economic Man, the fundamental factor in Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism, and exalted in its stead the myth of Heroic Man. ...

"In Hitler's eyes the aims of international Capitalism and Marxism were one and the same. Both, he said, repudiated 'the aristocratic principle of nature'; both were destroyers of quality, not of things but of life. He held that both lacked the self-justification of sacrifice, fought against Nature, and were destroyers of the race. ...

"Unless the struggle between these two myths -- Economic Man and Heroic Man -- is accepted and understood, the cataclysm which in 1939 submerged the world is almost incomprehensible and the age to which it gave birth little more than the plaything of chance."

Major-General J.F.C. Fuller, "A Military History of the Western World" (1956)

British Major-General J.F.C. Fuller had good reason to be objective in his remarks. He was a member of Sir Oswald Moseley's British Union of Fascists, marched with Moseley during BUF parades in London, and stood for election to Parliament on that party ticket in the mid-1930s. He was a friend of both Mussolini and Hitler, and was personally invited by Hitler to attend the festivities in Berlin for Hitler's fiftieth birthday. Fuller sat in a reviewing stand directly across the street from Hitler's platform during the great parade that day and attended a reception at the chancellery afterwards, where he and the German Leader chatted. Yet, though one would imagine that such a background would suffice to force him into total obscurity after the Second World War, his reputation as a military strategist and historian was so great that he published his military histories without interruption, and by major publishing houses, until his death in 1966. The Royal United Services Institute awarded Fuller the Chesney Gold Medal in 1963 for "eminent work calculated to advance the military sciences and knowledge." He was, in other words, a truly distinguished man and his works should be studied by Men of the Right today.

John Butler