List of Famous people with last name Degrelle

Léon Degrelle

Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle

First Name Léon

Last Name Degrelle

Born on June 15, 1906

Died on March 31, 1994 (aged 87)

Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle was a Belgian Walloon politician and one of the most important Nazi collaborators and later, one of the founding fathers of Holocaust denial from Belgium. Degrelle rose to prominence in Belgium in the 1930s as the leader of the clerical fascist Rexist Party. During the German occupation in 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 in Francoist Spain, where he remained a prominent figure in neo-Nazi politics. He died 50 years after being sentenced to death and losing his Belgian nationality for collaboration in 1944.

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