Léon Degrelle Archive

It’s a massive insult to a soldier if you misaddress their rank.

Happy Birthday Herr General!

Requiem mass of General Léon Degrelle held at San Fermín de los Navarros Church in Madrid, Spain, April, 1994. On January 25th, 1993, at the age of ninety-two, Degrelle wrote and signed the following note in a folder: “In exile, January 25, 1993 Behold, sixty years ago, I was then in full action. I have seen fit together the first issues of the publications that marked my youth. I look at them now with emotion. I am reminded that, from the beginning of my career, my life has been an impulse of faith, an explosion of my ideal. I have lived no more than to create greatness, to give the multitudes the means to become ennobled and to overcome. At the end of my life, I have nothing to regret. The same convictions still burn within me. If I were twenty years old again, I would take the same road, however hard it has been; even if coping with it were a thousand times more painful, I would climb again the rough ascent to the summits. Believe, fight, conquer or die; that was my life! Léon Degrelle”

General Léon Degrelle speaks about women, Spain, 1977. Happy Birthday Herr Léon!

“Herr Léon was an S.S. General. And I was a Colonel. That says it all.” — S.S.-Standartenführer der Reserve Dipl.-Ing. Otto Skorzeny, to the Flemish newspaper “Telstar” on October 1969 Otto Skorzeny acknowledged that Léon Degrelle held the rank of General and had served as his personal protector after the war. Images : (Left) At the end of 1950s, most likely at his “La Carlina”, Léon Degrelle, had his photograph taken in his S.S. uniform with his friend, S.S.-Standartenführer d. R. Dipl.-Ing. Otto Skorzeny. Note the collar tabs bearing the “Standartenführer” insignia sewn on by his aide, S.S.-Hauptsturmführer Robert Du Welz, in the early morning of August 2, 1945. (Right) Major-General Léon Degrelle and Colonel Otto Skorzeny stroll through the gardens of the Majalimar finca, a huge Andalusian agricultural estate where Degrelle was able to live from 1949 to 1950, thanks to the protection of the Falangist Minister of Labor, José Antonio Girón, Spain, 1950.

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Rest In Peace Alain Delon † 18.08.2024 Image : General Léon Degrelle with the famous French actor Alain Delon characterized by “El Zorro” on the set of the film “El Zorro”, Sevilla, Spain, 1975. While in Spain, Degrelle participated in many acts, without hiding at all from the press. Here he was photographed on the set of Zorro in Spain with the original Zorro character, Alain Delon, who was a big fan of Degrelle.

SS-Sturmbannführer d. R. Léon Degrelle (Commander 5. SS-Freiwilligen-Sturmbrigade “Wallonie”) photographed by Walter Frentz (The Führer’s personal photographer) at the Führerhauptquartier Wolfsschanze in Rastenburg, East Prussia, after the award ceremony with The Führer on August 27, 1944. Degrelle’s Oak Leaves recommendation reads as follows: “An enemy attack on August 23, 1944 that focused against Estonian formations led to the total disintegration of these units. With this the entire west/southwest flank of Dorpat (now Tartu) was exposed, and only defended by alarm units of minimal combat minor. Meanwhile, during the morning hours of this day, SS-Sturmbannführer Léon Degrelle was driving to a heavy Kompanie positioned further to the southwest. After discovering the situation he assembled the disorganized units in the vicinity of Lemmatsi that were fleeing towards Dorpat. He reformed them into a Kampfgruppe buttressed by weak German units,...” Continued in the comments

Today is the 118th anniversary of General Léon Degrelle’s birthday. “There will be no moral resurrection of Europe without a deep spiritual life, so much so that, being Catholic, I have always felt perfectly at ease in a future with National Socialism.” — Léon Degrelle

The centenary of The Führer Adolf Hitler. General Léon Degrelle gives speech at the Führer Adolf Hitler’s centenary celebrations in Madrid, Spain, April 20, 1989. Léon Degrelle was among the founding members of “Committee for the Preparation of Adolf Hitler’s 100th Birthday Celebration”. The aim of the committee was to prepare and organize celebrations to mark Adolf Hitler’s 100th birthday in 1989, which were intended to act as a kind of beacon for “Europe-wide networking and the creation of a common movement from the fragmented N.S. scene”.

May the lord bless his soul and may he Rest In Peace. 🕯✋️

ᛣ 31.3.1994

Léon Degrelle and White Russians Brussels, Sports Palace, July 2, 1943. Meeting of the Anti-Bolshevik Committee. First row (from left to right): Professor Grotov, Lieutenant Davidenkov of the Russian Liberation Army, Léon Degrelle, Dr. H. Voyklekhnovsky and the guard.

“That’s the way it is. This present world, hypocritical, impotent, a farce in the midst of tragedy, is the one that was built for you in 1945 ; it is this world, reeking of uselessness and harmfulness, that you, the young Europeans of today, are going to have to bring down.” — Léon Degrelle

''Our legion was like a band of brothers: we were united in all things.'' —Léon Degrelle (Campaign in Russia: The Waffen SS on the Eastern Front)

Lieutenant-General Werner Otto Sanne (Commander 100. Light-Infantry-Division), who awarded Léon Degrelle the Iron Cross Second Class on March 3, 1942, was ordered to surrender himself and his remaining troops along with the entire Sixth Army commanded by Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus to the Red Army after the battle of Stalingrad on January 31, 1943. He spent the next few years in various camps. On September 26, 1952 he died in captivity in the Krasnopol camp.

“In the human desert, where there are so many lambs, there are lions.” — Léon Degrelle