Le Monde.fr: LÉON DEGRELLE NE POURRA PAS RENTRER EN BELGIQUE AVANT DIX ANS
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Léon Degrelle
Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle was a Belgian Walloon politician and Nazi collaborator. He rose to prominence in Belgium in the 1930s as the leader of the Rexist Party (Rex). During the German occupation of Belgium during World War II, he enlisted in the German army and fought in the Walloon Legion on the Eastern Front. After the collapse of the Nazi regime, Degrelle escaped and went into exile…
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business · Belgian politician and Nazi collaborator (1906–1994) · politician · journalist · writer · jurist · military officer · businessperson · also Léon Degrelle, Degrelle
Born 15 June 1906 · Died 31 March 1994 · Q158844
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2025· 4 entries
Le Figaro: Tribun de haut vol, «Führer» belge... Léon Degrelle, ce collaborateur qui œuvra pour une internationale d’extrême droite après la guerre
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lavenir: Une bio "grand public" du rexiste Léon Degrelle : le portrait d'un homme aux multiples facettes
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Marianne: Léon Degrelle : de la presse au nazisme, itinéraire d'un admirateur d'Hitler en Belgique
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2024· 1 entry
soirmag.lesoir: Léon Degrelle: le crépuscule d’un traître
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2020· 1 entry
Sudinfo.be: Les propos du petit-fils de Léon Degrelle sur la RTBF provoquent l’émoi à Bouillon
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2019· 1 entry
Télé-Loisirs.fr: Léon Degrelle, le fils préféré d'Hitler
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2017· 1 entry
RTBF: Léon Degrelle "le Führer de Bouillon" vu de Flandre
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2009· 3 entries
lavenir: Léon Degrelle, marié à Tournai
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RTBF: Léon Degrelle, l'homme qui a fasciné et fascisé les Belges
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Le Soir: Léon Degrelle, un mythe gênant
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1994· 7 entries
Died 1994-03-31.
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“Demokracja się rozkłada na naszych oczach. Ta demokracja – to anarchia, drogi posiekane rowami, rozbój w biały dzień.”
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“Oto nasz cuchnący świat. Prawo numer jeden: ordynarna korzyść materialna. A potem? Nieład, niemoc i hipokryzja państw, bez oglądania się na moralność.”
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“Młodzież nawet nie zdaje sobie sprawy, że dawniej można było żyć inaczej.”
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“Mimo wszystko młodzi muszą bez próżnych narzekań przyjąć ten nowy świat taki, jaki jest z jego wadami, ale i z natchnieniem, które można znaleźć i jego rozszerzonymi horyzontami.”
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“Każda konstruktywna rewolucja jest owocem długich intelektualnych przygotowań.”
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“Zmęczony? Wierz mi lub nie, ale wczoraj w nocy chodziłem i zwiedzałem. Dziś rano wspiąłem się na najwyższy punkt najwyższej wieży katedry jak nowonarodzony! Nigdy nie byłem tak mało zmęczony, mam elastyczne, gotowe do marszu członki i czuję się lekki jak piórko (niemniej jednak okazałe piórko!).”
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1991· 1 entry
The Supreme Court of Spain ruled in favor of the plaintiff
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1983· 1 entry
And subsequently forbade the repatriation of his remains
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1979· 1 entry
Ahead of Pope John Paul II's visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Degrelle wrote an open letter to the Pope
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1969· 2 entries
An event reported widely in the Spanish press
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Degrelle began a media campaign to be allowed to return to Belgium
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1954· 1 entry
Degrelle was adopted by a local woman he had befriended, Matilde Ramírez Reina, and thereby gained Spanish citizenship under the name José León Ramírez Reina
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1949· 1 entry
Degrelle began to publish books and give interviews in which he praised the Nazis, denied the Holocaust, attempted to distort the historical record, and aggrandize himself
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1944· 2 entries
And revoked his citizenship on 29 December 1945
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And subsequent military decorations turned him into a model for foreign collaborators
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1943· 2 entries
Their marriage became strained during the war as Degrelle kept mistresses in Brussels and Paris, and Lemay had an open affair with an officer of the Luftwaffe until she ended the affair in March 1943 and informed Degrelle of it.
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The officer, unwilling to end the affair, was found shot in the head and heart near the Degrelle residence on 12 April 1943.
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1942· 1 entry
Degrelle began lobbying for the integration of Walloons into the SS, and in June made a brief visit to Berlin to meet with Nazi functionaries and Rex's interim leaders
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1941· 1 entry
Degrelle organized and himself joined and fought in the Walloon Legion, a unit of the German Army and, after 1943, the Waffen-SS
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1939· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium (1939–1946).
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1933· 1 entry
The Catholic Party cut its ties with Degrelle, as did the ACJB the following year
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1929· 1 entry
With Wallez's support, Degrelle traveled to Mexico to report on the Cristero War, a rebellion of Mexican Catholics against the incumbent anti-clerical government
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1906· 1 entry
Born 1906-06-15.
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1904· 1 entry
And became a respected conservative politician as a member of the Catholic Party
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