Trevor Grundy is a journalist and author of the books Memoir of a Fascist Childhood and Farmer at War.
Biography
Trevor Grundy was born in 1940 in London and was raised with his sister in a family strictly loyal to Oswald Mosley's fascist movement, British Union of Fascists, whose members were called Blackshirts. His parents were fanatic fascists and anti-Semites. During the Second World War, Grundy's father was detained under Defence Regulation 18B. Grundy grew up being indoctrinated from birth into fascism in a cult-like way, in a movement and dysfunctional family which worshipped the leader, Mosley, and turned the children into social outcasts in society. In class, Trevor promoted Mosley and Adolf Hitler, to much criticism from other teachers. He was close to Max Mosley, son of Oswald, and was deep inside the fascist movement, close to its leaders and with a father belonging to the "old guard" of fascists, Trevor Grundy got to sell their magazines and help organize rallies, and other activities. During the 1958 Notting Hill race riots, Mosley encourages the adolescent Grundy to graduate as fascist Youth Leader. Trevor makes his oratorical debut before a meeting of 2000 in Trafalgar Square. As an adult, slowly growing disillusioned, Grundy travelled to Africa and later married an African woman. He renounced fascism in his first book, a political autobiography about growing up in the cult-like fascist movement. In the book he reveals that his mother, who had been a fanatic anti-Semite, was strangely enough, actually Jewish herself, which she finally admitted too. Grundy wrote about one incident where he and his mother was trying to get residents to vote Mosley in post-war Britain and one person they visited began laughing when his mother promoted Mosley, since his mother "looked so Jewish" they thought they were just joking and not seriously supporting Mosley. His mother's psychosis or schizophrenia in promoting anti-Semitism has sometimes been described as the result of her own Jewish family forcing her into prostitution when younger, she later became a fanatic anti-Semite and converted to Christianity. Since his mother committed suicide, the truth why she adopted fascist ideals is still under speculation. Grundy later wrote a second book, about Rhodesia and racism.
