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ϟϟ-Major Léon Degrelle visit a camp hosting young volunteers Walloon workers near Dresden, deprives the officer Waffen-ϟϟ of all his decorations to show him as he enlisted, in August 1941, as a simple Private of the Wehrmacht (Armed Forces), German Empire, July 1944. The Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross dates this photograph after February 20, 1944 when Hitler personally bestowed this decoration upon him for his participation in the Cherkassy Pocket campaign (Korsun-Shevchenkovskii).
“While in the German Empire capital, Léon Degrelle met with the Walloons working and talked to them. A young Walloon worker listens to Léon Degrelle’s story about the heroic deed of the volunteers at the front.”
“While in the German Empire capital, Léon Degrelle met with the Walloons working and talked to them. A young Walloon worker listens to Léon Degrelle’s story about the heroic deed of the volunteers at the front.”
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“In victory or defeat the Waffen-SS always sought to be the best representatives of their people.”
— Léon Degrelle
— Léon Degrelle
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Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant) Léon Degrelle at an opening ceremony in Brussels, Belgium on June 18, 1943 of an exhibition of photographs of the Walloon Legion in honor of his 30th birthday. In the same month, the Walloon Legion was taken into the Waffen-ϟϟ as the ϟϟ-Sturmbrigade Wallonien. The ϟϟ-Sturmbrigade Wallonien (briefly known as ϟϟ-Assault-Brigade “Wallonie”) was formed from Wallonisches Infanterie-Bataillon 373 (Walloon Infantry-Battalion 373) of the Heer (Army) (1941). On May 24, 1943, in Pieske barracks near Meseritz, German Empire, the Legion was inspected by Reichsführer-ϟϟ Heinrich Himmler who announced that the Legion was to be a part of the Waffen-ϟϟ from June onwards and to be renamed ϟϟ-Sturmbrigade Wallonien. From June to October the Legion completed advanced military training at Wildflecken, German Empire, and then left for the East. The ϟϟ-Assault-Brigade “Wallonie” attached to 5. ϟϟ-Panzer-Division “Wiking” in the southern sector of the Eastern Front in late 1943.
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“Léon Degrelle, journalist in USA.” This pic was taken while Léon went to do a report when he was a simple journalist. During this travel he will also bring to Europe the phylacteries by exposing it to the father of Tintin ; Hergé.
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A river of nobility and heroism was to refresh our delightful, hateful countries, clinging to the stupidity of gold living in the exclusivity of strictly personal and material appetites.
Pain had swept over Europe, like ancient curses, like a fabulous hurricane falling from a burning sky.
She had come, beyond the consumed cities, destroyed goods, crushed hearts, to bring back to the essential: the primacy of souls, the need for peoples to be pure, possessed by the love of others, strained towards the self-sacrifice.
(Léon Degrelle, State of Soul, 1938)
Pain had swept over Europe, like ancient curses, like a fabulous hurricane falling from a burning sky.
She had come, beyond the consumed cities, destroyed goods, crushed hearts, to bring back to the essential: the primacy of souls, the need for peoples to be pure, possessed by the love of others, strained towards the self-sacrifice.
(Léon Degrelle, State of Soul, 1938)
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