Léon Degrelle
Belgian journalist, politician, SS soldier, fugitive (1906-1994)
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Lived 1906–1994, aged 88
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He led a Catholic-rooted party in 1930s Belgium, then volunteered for the Waffen-SS and spent fifty years in Spanish exile writing Holocaust denial. The attention comes from the arc: how far someone traveled from respectability to the outer edge of collaboration.
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Degrelle came up through Catholic journalism and by the early 1930s controlled a publishing house that became the Rexist Party. Rex took 11 percent in the 1936 Belgian election, then collapsed into irrelevance before the war. When Germany invaded Belgium in 1940, Degrelle was released from detention and began reshaping Rex to win Nazi favor. In 1941 he organized the Walloon Legion and fought on the Eastern Front; his actions at Cherkassy in 1944 and the decorations that followed made him a showcase for foreign volunteers. Belgium stripped his citizenship and sentenced him to death in absentia…
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