In 1932, a charismatic aristocrat named Sir Oswald Moseley founded the British Union of Fascists, an organisation that strove to popularise the ideas and strategies of Italian Fascism and German Nazism, including the hatred of Jews, Roma, homosexuals, and the disabled. Within a few years, it had recruited some 40–50,000 members. Moseley and most of the BUF’s membership (including Moseley’s wife) were interned by the British government in 1940, and the organisation was banned.