Léon Degrelle
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 30 years ago |
Date of birth | June 15,1906 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Bouillon |
Belgium | |
Date of died | March 31,1994 |
Died | Malaga |
Spain | |
Parents | Édouard Degrelle |
Job | Journalist |
Politician | |
Books | Campaign in Russia: The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front |
The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941-1945 | |
Epic: The Story of the Waffen SS | |
Hitler Democrat | |
The Hitler Century: The Hitler century | |
Letter to the Pope on His Visit to Auschwitz | |
The Burning Souls | |
Militia | |
Awards | Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross |
Iron Cross | |
Infantry Assault Badge | |
Wound Badge | |
Eastern Front Medal | |
War Merit Cross | |
Spouse | Marie-Paule Lemay |
Party | Rexist Party |
Nationality | Belgian |
German | |
Spanish | |
Education | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
Founded | Rexist Party |
Walloon Legion | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 593748 |
Léon Degrelle Life story
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. 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.