John Amery, one of two children, was born on the 14th of March 1912 in London in England. His father, Leo Amery, was a British statesman, a Member of Parliament, and later a Conservative government minister. Leo’s mother was born in the Jewish quarter of Budapest and came from an intellectual Jewish-Hungarian family. But Leo chose to hide his background, probably because he feared it could jeopardise his ascent through the ranks of the Conservative Party.John’s mother was Florence Greenwood, a daughter of the Canadian barrister and younger sister of the 1st Viscount Greenwood. Instead of pursuing higher education, John turned down his place at Oxford and set his sights on the film industry. He briefly worked as an assistant director for a small travelling company, but his ambitions quickly outpaced his experience. With the charm and self-confidence that would later define his reputation as a manipulator, he convinced several friends and members of his well-connected family to invest in a film project titled Jungle Skies, to be shot in Africa. The proposed budget was £100,000. However, the project never materialised. Around this time, he suddenly announced his intention to marry Una Eveline Wing, an actress he claimed would help restore the confidence of his creditors by virtue of her supposed wealth. In reality, Una was known to police as a common prostitute. The two eventually married in Greece and later settled in Paris, funding their extravagant lifestyle through a combination of borrowing from acquaintances and pawning valuables.Seen as a political trophy, a British aristocrat who had turned against his homeland, John was quickly pushed into Nazi propaganda efforts. He was offered the opportunity to speak directly to British audiences via German state radio, and on the 19th of November 1942, he made his first broadcast. Framing himself as a patriotic Englishman, he declared:
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