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John Amery (March 14, 1912 – December 19, 1945) was a British fascist who proposed to Hitler the forming of a British volunteer force (what became the British Free Corps), made recruitment efforts and propaganda broadcasts for Nazi Germany. He was hanged for treason after the war. He should not be confused with Jean Améry, an Austrian writer and close contemporary, who was a victim of Nazi Germany.

After the war, Amery was tried for treason; in a preliminary hearing, he argued that he had never attacked Britain and was an anti-Communist, not a Nazi. At the same time, his brother Julian Amery attempted to show that he had taken out Spanish citizenship by producing fraudulent documents, and thus would have been incapable of committing treason against the UK. His counsel tried to show that he was mentally ill. These latter attempts failed, and he pleaded guilty at his trial to eight charges of treason. He was sentenced to death on 28 November 1945, and hanged by Albert Pierrepoint on 19 December of that year. This is believed to be the only case of a man pleading guilty to a charge of treason in the UK. It is speculated that Amery pleaded guilty in the hope that by sparing his family and the wider establishment the embarrassment of a trial, his inevitable death sentence might be commuted. If so, it was a miscalculation.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Amery