Beat the devil. (fascism in Italy, and elsewhere) (Column)

The Nation;  April 25, 1994 ;     700+ words ......owned by his brother, which on April 2 published a paean to Leon Degrelle, a courageous man who was prepared to live and die for an...Degrelle in his SS uniform, under the title The long twilight of Leon Degrelle, the last fascist leader. The tactful way the press here...

Leon Degrelle, Belgian Fascist, Hitler Ally, Dies

The Washington Post;  April 2, 1994 ;     331 words ...Leon Degrelle, 87, the former Belgian fascist and SS General who was once praised by Adolf Hitler as the ideal son, died at a private clinic...

Obituary: Leon Degrelle

The Independent - London;  April 7, 1994 ;     700+ words ......dissolved), secondly Mme Charbonneau; died Malaga, Spain 31 March 1994. THE DEATH of the Belgian wartime collaborationist leader Leon Degrelle breaks one of the few remaining links with the politics of Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite having spent almost 50 years in...

French Police Raid Bookstores Selling Pro-Nazi Books

Xinhua English Newswire;  August 8, 1997 ;     84 words ......suspected of selling banned books written by Nazi writers, reported Agence France-Presse. Police seized several books written by Leon Degrelle, a Belgian SS general serving Nazi Germany during World War II, during a raid on "L'Aencre" bookstore on July 25. Degrelle...

Belgique. Bruxelles. Avril 1937. Meeting de l'extr-droite. L...

Magnum Photos;  January 1, 1937 ;     306 words ......before the national elections in which the party's candidate, Leon Degrelle, delivering a harangue to the audience at which he laterwould...before the national elections in which the party's candidate, Leon Degrelle, delivering a harangue to the audience at which he laterwould...

Spain blocks ceremony by neo-Nazis

The Boston Globe;  November 17, 1991 ;     272 words ......week after the Constitutional Court ruled in favor of Violeta Friedman, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz, in her suit against Leon Degrelle, who was a Belgian Nazi general. Degrelle, now a Spanish citizen, denied the existence of the death camps in a 1985 magazine...

Fifty years on, and Belgium's war wounds are still hurting

The Independent - London;  March 6, 1994 ;     556 words ......helped to round up the Jewish community in Antwerp and elsewhere. From the Walloon side came the notorious Rex group. Led by Leon Degrelle (who still lives in exile), it was attracted intellectually to fascism and collaborated with the Nazi regime at all levels...

Wiesenthal Center Calls Upon Spanish Government to Extradite Former...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 23, 2008 ;     248 words ......of historic justice, which is reinforced by Spain's decades-long role as a haven for such prominent Holocaust perpetrators as Ante Pavelic and Leon Degrelle." For more information call 00-972-50-7214156 TNS gv51-jf78-080625-1635601 18MASHJofrey

Joyce's last laugh? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  February 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ......CHRISTUS REX (Christ The King) was formed as a group within the Belgian Catholic Party in 1935. Its founder was wealthy lawyer Leon Degrelle, who, at the peak of his power, led Christus Rex to a 21- seat total in the general election of 1936, by which time he had...

Nazis received warm welcome in postwar Spain, new book says

Jewish Telegraphic Agency;  March 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Germany was blocked by the Spanish parliament in 1996. Remer died in Malaga several years ago at age 84. Another fugitive was Leon DeGrelle, a former leader of the Belgain section of the Waffen-SS, who escaped a death sentence in his native Belgium by escaping...

Jabotinksy and the Jewish right wing.(The Jewish Radical Right)(Book...

Midstream;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Romanian Iron Guard, the Hungarian Arrow Cross, the Slovak Hlinka Guards, the Austrian Heimwehr, and the Belgian followers of Leon Degrelle. In other words, Jewish Fascism was one of many similar movements of the time, with the one notable difference that it was...

Nazi who saved Hitler is in Spain

The Independent - London;  July 20, 1994 ;     700+ words ......parliament made the Auschwitz Lie illegal. Mrs Friedman won a long court battle against another former Nazi, Belgian SS General Leon Degrelle, several years ago after he, too, denied the Holocaust in a Spanish magazine interview. Degrelle spent the post-war years...

The anti-Semitic International

Jerusalem Post;  July 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ......the European Union presidency, purged themselves of their own real crimes? It will be remembered that Belgians, headed by Leon Degrelle, collaborated with the Nazi conquerors in destroying the flourishing Belgian Jewish community. The history books are full...