Thread - #OTD in 1936 a famous & magnificent victory over Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts took place; the #BattleofCableSt! Over 150 000 took to the streets to stop a fascist invasion of mainly Jewish areas of London's East End. British fascists met a serious defeat.
Mosley aimed to Launch a mass movement ala Hitler. He poured resources into East London. Blackshirts created a reign of terror, particularly targeting Jews. Like Goebbels, they looked to "control the streets...conquer the masses". Sadly, some who should have known better told anti fascists to

Thread- Remember #sophiescholl
Born #OTD in 1921.
An heroic anti nazi, executed by the nazis aged just 21. She was a leader of the incredible White Rose (WR) resistance movement.
At Munich University she & her brother Hans, organised opposition to Hitler. Her words speak to the Soul. WR wrote & distributed leaflets encouraging citizens to fight the 3rd Reich. Hans & friends arrest in 1937, for being part of outlawed, German youth movement, reinforced her growing anti nazism.
By 1942 she & friends focused defiance to the nazis. They adopted tactics based

Thread - #Kristallnacht On 9/10th November in 1938, nationwide pogroms resulted in the murder of perhaps hundreds of Jews in Germany, by Nazi goons. Countless others were injured. Nearly 300 synagogues were destroyed. Over 7000 Jewish shops & other property were looted. Around 30 000 male Jews were arrested & put in concentration camps. Nazi terror was "revenge" for the killing of an official at the German Embassy in Paris, by a a young Polish Jew, Herschel Grynszpan. His parents were among many expelled from Germany & refused entry to Poland