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Leon Degrelle

Walloon politician, founder of the Walloon Autorian Catholic movement "Rex" and Nazi collaborator volunteer of the Waffen SS

Degrelle was also active in the Belgian Catholic Party of which he splitoff in 1935 when he formed the Rex movement.

After Belgium was defeated by Germany, Degrelle joined the Wehrmacht. In 1943 he and all the other Wallonians were transferred to the Waffen SS. The Wallonian Waffen SS fought at the Eastern front.

After the war Degrelle fled to Spain and was the head publisher for the group "Círculo Español de Amigos de Europa". In the 1960s, Degrelle returned to public life as a neo-Nazi and gained great influence in far-right European circles. He published several books and papers glorifying Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime and publicly denying the Holocaust.

Degrelle died in 1994 in a Spanish hospital.


“You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.”
Leon Degrelle
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