King and Country

On 9 February 1933, barely ten days after Adolf Hitler had become Chancellor of Germany, the Oxford Union, the internationally renowned student debating society, sent shockwaves around the world when its members declared that they would, in no circumstances, fight for King and Country. The Oxford Oath, as it became known, led to furious newspaper editorials, unleashed a political storm that lasted for several weeks, and triggered similar debates at other universities around the world. The in