Author’s Note: I have been building a compendium of Churchll’s ‘Anti-Socialist Crimes‘ – to which I have added the following entry for ‘1936’. The claim that Degrelle was granted an audience with Churchill comes from the dustcover to Degrelle’s biographical account of his time in the Waffen SS during its invasion of the USSR. I can only find one or two other references which seem to be quoting this same source. It might be that the Churchill apologists do not want the general public knowing that Winston was a firm admirer of Hitler, and if the meeting with Degrelle is anything to go by, something of an ardent fascist himself!
On the other hand, this claim might be a far-right ‘lie’ – typical of those that attempt to rehabilitate everything Hitlerite. More research is required. As for the despicable Degrelle, he had his Belgian citizenship stripped from him, and had to live out his life in exile in Spain. In his book he quite happily admits to committing ‘atrocities’ in the USSR, and is open about why he thought Hitler was ‘right’ to eradicate ALL inferior races! A true pice of ‘sh’t by any one’s standard! ACW (15.8.2023)
The Nazi German collaborator – Léon Degrelle (1906-1994) – was the founder (and leader) of the far-right (Catholic) ‘Rexist Party’ of Belgium – a political institution that sided with the Germans during World War II and actively supported the subsequent expulsion of Jews from that country (most exterminated at Auschwitz). Degrelle came to prominence as one of the youngest political leaders in Europe in the 1930s. Following the electoral success in the 1936 Belgium General Elections of his ‘Rex Party’ (held on May 24th, 1936) – Degrelle became the leader of an elected (far-right) political party aged just 29 years of age. His meteoric rise saw him tour those European individual political figures he believed to be reliably right-wing or far-right. To this end, the biographers of Degrelle claim that he was granted an audience in London with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill before visiting Italian fascist dictator – Benito Mussolini (and other prominent Italian fascists and Catholics) – in Rome. From there, Degrelle went on to be received by Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler in Berlin (on September 26th,1936). Interestingly, the US-controlled (English-language) Wikipedia page for ‘Léon Degrelle‘ omits the meeting between Churchill and Degrelle – whilst there is only a few ‘vague’ mentionings of this meeting on the internet. During WWII, Degrelle volunteered to serve in the Nazi German Army (1941–1943) and the Waffen-SS (1943–1945). Whilst serving in the SS he witnessed the Nazi Germans and their allies commit endless atrocities in the USSR – atrocities that he himself proudly participated in. His fascistic antics are recorded in his autobiographical book originally written in the French language – but later translated into English as ‘Campaign in Russia – The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front’. The book cover to the 1985 (Crecy) edition states ‘Widely travelled throughout Europe, Asia and North America, Mussolini invited him to Rome, Churchill saw him in London and Hitler received him in Berlin.’
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