The article below is about how Spanish dictator Francisco Franco treated Axis war hero Léon Degrelle, who came to him in 1945 as a true refugee, seeking protection from the Allies after the war.

It is my translation of an article published in the superb magazine “Circle of the friends of Leon Degrelle,” May 2019. (Address: BP 92733, F-21027 Dijon Cedex). This is a glossy, color magazine, written by comrades who knew personally this great general of the Waffen-SS, who, before the war had been the founder, leader and charismatic speaker of the great Belgian party, the “Rexists.”

“Rex” in Latin means “king,” and refers to Jesus, resurrected and ascended to heaven, as being Christ the King. This was a Catholic, patriotic movement with fascist and, over time, more and more National Socialist, antisemitic, and racial overtones.

Degrelle later became the most decorated officer of the 450,000 non-German volunteers of the Waffen-SS!

He spent five years on the infernal Eastern Front, where two million Axis soldiers died!

My companion Margaret Huffstickler and I translated his memoirs in French with the provocative and defiant title Hitler pour mille ans (“Hitler for a thousand years”) under the new title My Revolutionary Life.

We did this work for the Washington DC-area publishing house in the United States that publishes the Barnes Review magazine — founded in 1994 by the late Léon Degrelle’s friend, the great nationalist and revisionist publisher Willis Carto.

Here is one of Degrelle’s books, Persiste et signe  [ = “Persist and sign,,meaning Degrelle remains defiant and retracts nothing] (1985), which Willis Carto’s widow, Elizabeth, sent me:

In it I was amazed to discover this personal dedication by Degrelle to Carto:

“À mon cher ami et camarade américain Willis Carto, en souvenir fidèle et affectueux de son compagnon de combat, Léon Degrelle. In exile, 15 Nov. 1985” [Transl. FR-EN:] “To my dear friend and American comrade Willis Carto, in loyal and affectionate remembrance of a combat companion, Léon Degrelle. In exile, Nov. 15, 1985″

The truth is, first, that the supposedly heroic Franco wasn’t even one of the original Spanish rebel generals who overthrew the leftist republic to establish a kind of Spanish fascism.

He was a fence sitter until they offered him leadership. The war began after a pronunciamiento (a declaration of military opposition) against the Republican government by a group of generals of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces, originally under the leadership of José Sanjurjom, who later died in a plane crash.

When the leftist Popular Front won the 1936 Spanish national elections, Franco joined other generals who launched a coup the same year, intending to overthrow the republic. The coup failed to take control of most of the country and precipitated the Spanish Civil War. After the war had started, Franco took control of the Army of Africa, which was air-lifted into Spain. Throgh the deaths of the other leading generals, Franco became by default his faction’s only leader and was appointed Generalissimo and Head of State in the fall of 1936. Then the Germans and Italians saved his coup with massive military support — air, land and sea, plus cash and advanced training.

In this article, a close friend of Degrelle during his life in Spanish exile from 1945-94 tells of the great financial and security difficulties that Léon Degrelle underwent in postwar Spain.

Under the iron-fisted aegis of the “Caudillo” (leader), Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Spain was a country which, on the one hand, had remained “fascist” after the disastrous end of WWII for the Axis.

But on the other hand, Franco was not racialist or anti-Semitic at all like Degrelle, and his ideology was basically just Catholic, conservative and authoritarian. Law and order, dictatorship, family values, antifeminism, and Spanish nationalism ruled the day.

In fact, Francisco Franco shortsightedly helped Adolf Hitler and the Axis very, very little during the war — although it was the Axis (Mussolini and Hitler) that had given him enormous, decisive military aid in his ultimate victory over the Spanish Republic, which had been backed by Stalin and various leftists worldwide.

It is even said that Franco accepted a huge bribe in 1940 from the English, proffered by the sociopath Churchill, to remain neutral in the Second World War, and especially and specifically not to close the Strait of Gibraltar to the powerful Royal Navy — with terrible consequences for the German Wehrmacht.

Spain then controlled both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar, since from 1912-56, under an agreement with France, it also ruled a strip of land on the North African side called “Spanish Morocco.” (France ruled the rest of Morocco, and after 1940 that meant Vichy France.)

The Wehrmacht, which Adolf Hitler had prepared in 1940-41 to invade the Soviet Union, also had to fight in North Africa (in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria) as well as in the Balkans. Hitler was forced to send some of his vitally needed divisions to both side theaters to rescue the inept soldiers of Mussolini, whom the British (and Greeks) were beating with a fraction of the number of troops Italy had.

This huge diversion of military resources fatally weakened his own National Socialist invasion of the enormous Soviet Union, a military juggernaut then ruled by the satanic mass murderer Joseph Stalin.

Franco’s body language toward Hitler in 1940 is visible and says it all. It is said that this small (5’4″/163 cm), swarthy, rigid-minded man from southern Spain, Andalusia — the last bastion of Moorish and jewish power in 1492 — was himself of partial Sephardic ancestry.

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Léon Degrelle, on the other hand, had an almost son-and-father relationship with Adolf Hitler.

But this same Franco did little more than the absolute, bare minimum for Degrelle, when he escaped from the Allies and crash-landed in a German plane in northern Spain in May 1945.

The Supreme Allied Commander Europe, five-star general Dwight Eisenhower,

….had demanded from Franco the unjust extradition to his forces of two prominent leaders.

He demanded that Franco 1) send to De Gaulle’s France  Pierre Laval,  the onetime prime minister of the “French State” (the correct name of the Vichy regime under Marshal Philippe Pétain), and 2) extradite to Belgium Léon Degrelle  for supposed “treason” against Belgium and completely invented “war crimes” — which today not one even of Degrelle enemies claims of him.

The Jews’ bootlicker, General Eisenhower, comes out of an improvised synagogue in a post-war camp for Jews. 

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*** Sidebar: Was Eisenhower part-Jewish?

No, there is no evidence that this vile blue-eyed traitor of German-American blood had any Jewish blood in his veins. In fact, several of his brothers were fiercely anti-Roosevelt and anti-war.

His grand-niece Laura Eisenhower, who regularly denonces the NWO, has certainly inherited his looks and blue eyes.

Ike, some younger siblings, and his parents, looking like the German-British genetic mix they were. Mrs. Eisenhower, by the way, was an early Jehovah’s Witness, and a pacifist.

Ike on the left, the oldest and tallest of the six boys. Many Germans look like them, not “nordic.”

The part about “Ike” being a “terrible Swedish Jew” in the West Point yearbook was part and parcel of the standard cadet humor and ribbing.

The full caption show this was all jocular in intent.

Actually neither West Point nor the US Naval Academy then admitted Jews. (Hyman Rickover was one of the first openly Jewish cadets at Annapolis — 1918-22, and later became the “father of the US nuclear navy” and a mentor to a Navy ensign named Jimmy Carter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover)

As Jewish publisher Ron Unz recently revealed, there was a very powerful antisemitic feeling in the highest ranks of the US military for decades, especially after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

It culminated in the 1938 pronouncements of General George Van Horn Moseley, who was US Army Deputy Chief of Staff (1930-33) under Douglas Macarthur and finally the commander of the Third Army, which General George Patton (later an open antisemite himself) took over in 1944.

Major General George Van Horn Moseley 1874-1960

Mosely wrote a letter on October 23, 1940 to the America First Committee, which was opposed to war against Hitler Germany, stating he would join them if they took an open stance against Jewry.

Excerpts:

Dear Mr. Stuart:
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If I am to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated October 11, I must, in keeping with the principles which have always governed me, write you very frankly. At the outset, I must say that I am happy to know that your organization has chosen such a vital mission. But I wonder if you realize the difficulties of such a campaign and the real strength of the enemy – and are you prepared to go to battle with him and his tribe? A number of organizations have started out bravely with a mission similar to yours, but too often they have melted away before the enemy.
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I have had considerable experience on this subject, for I tried to arouse the American people from their apathy, pointing out the dangers confronting us as a nation. But I stated the truth too frankly and so, for many months now, my pen and my voice have been silenced.
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Early in my endeavors, I received an invitation to speak before the Union League Club of Chicago, an organization I remember from boyhood, which always marched in step with the Republic. No date had been fixed but when the enemy went after me in the public press the heroic Union League Club evidently lost their nerve and they did not renew their invitation.
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What prevents America from being first today? Let me be frank and point out the enemy who would themselves be first in America today, and that is the Jewish nation, a nation within a nation. If you will investigate, as I have – crime, graft, filthy publications and unsavory movies, the liquor and drug traffic, the red light district, white slave traffic and WAR – you will arrive headon against a pack of Jews in control.
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I am not going to take your time to discuss in this letter the age old problem of the Jew, but if you are interested, you can get all the evidence concerning his plans for world domination from the writings of Jews, themselves. You do not have to rely on the statement of any Gentile. Suffice it to say, however, that they have been driven out of every country in which they have been domiciled, and for good reason, and EVENTUALLY THEY WILL BE DRIVEN OUT OF THE U. S. A.

Formerly I felt sorry for the Member of Congress who could not face this problem frankly on account of Jewish influence in his district, but now I find the influence of Jews extends to every field. 

The banker, who may agree with me on principle just one hundred per cent, dares not touch this problem for some of his biggest depositors are Jews; many a lawyer will not face it for some of his big clients are Jews; the press cannot touch it, for so many of the big advertisers are Jews, and it is the advertiser who makes the paper pay. If we lack the character to face this problem squarely and solve it, we will experience the tragedy which overtook France.
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I shall be glad to join your organization, assisting it as far as I am permitted to do so –
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1. If you eliminate from your organization all Jews and all Jewish influences (they join all organizations and buy in on both political parties; then they keep themselves fully advised, and control or ruin);
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2. If you will come out before the nation with a definite statement against the Jew and all he stands for, including the closing of our doors to all refugee Jews, of whatever nationality;
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3. If you will take a definite stand against the control by Jews in local, state and national affairs;
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4. If you will advocate the restoration of our REPUBLIC, bringing back in the written and spoken language throughout the United States the words, “Republic, Christ and Christian”.
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If you will take the stand that I have suggested above, millions of Gentiles will rush to your banner. But if you fail to meet this issue squarely, your organization will accomplish nothing, except possibly to support a certain overhead, including perhaps several Jewish secretaries, placed with you for the purpose of spying upon you and your work. [….]

https://johndenugent.com/america-first-committee-cowards-rejected-general-moseley-in-1940-for-demanding-all-out-confrontation-with-the-jews/)

Interestingly, the highly respected Moseley stayed in contact with both Eisenhower, who became the Jews’ sycophant, and Patton, who did the opposite,  throughout the war.

The key influence on Eisenhower was being mentored by rich Jewish financier Bernard Baruch, and “Ike” made no secret of their close relationship. Winston Churchill was another protegé of Baruch.

The brilliant movie “Wall Street,” directed by the half-Jewish Oliver Stone, shows the process of a rich Jew “reeling in” an impressionable young man on the make. The financier, Gordon Gekko, whose last name is that of a lizard (and played by Michael Douglas), shows Bud Fox (played by Charlie Sheen) “a good time”: limousines, hot women, and fancy clubs, and backed by big checks.

If a young fellow has a huge ego and weak morals, it works every time. Ike was not a “kike” — he was a white farm boy with big, blue eyes from Abilene, Kansas who wanted to have it all.

He wanted power, glory, and, finally, the presidency of the United States, at the price of his soul. There are many goyim without one drop of Jewish blood who are ready to do anything to get them, and, not having a crooked nose, or wooly black hair, we wrongly lower our guard around them. Thus they are the most dangerous of all our enemies.

Roman senator Cicero:

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Franco, fearing an US-British invasion of Spain, decided to hand over only Laval to the Allies and thus to his death. Perhaps this was because Léon Degrelle was much more likable, charming and friendly than Laval. We do not know the reason. Was it perhaps Laval’s deeply yellow-stained teeth, which Degrelle once joked about?

But as the following article explains (from the pen of his Spanish friend Blas Piñar), Franco and his Franquistas did very little for this great fellow Latin, Léon Degrelle, a French-speaking man of Belgian Wallonia, even though he was threatened CONSTANTLY BY JEWISH ASSASSINS and penury.

Otto Skorczeny (photo with Degrelle below). Here he is on the right with Degrelle at the front of this magazine.

The German Otto Skorczeny, also a Waffen-SS hero, likewise lived in Spanish exile. But, unlike Degrelle, he refrained from any controversial political commentary on the National Socialists, the reasons for their anti-Semitism, and Adolf Hitler and the Jews. It is also alleged that Skorczeny became the Israelis’s military advisor regarding combat tactics for their commandos. (One of them, btw, was Benjamin Netanyahu.)

While translating many of Degrelle’s writings, I realized that he was still rather silent about Francisco Franco until his death in 1994 — and now we know why. He was “walking on eggs with Franco” and then with his supporters after the Caudillo’s death in 1975.

Sadly, Franco was superficial and confused about the fact that the defeat of the Axis (never mind any gratitude for it enabling his victory in the Spanish Civl War) would sooner or later lead to the downfall of his own regime as well.

After his demise in November 1975, his Francoist system was very gradually and cunningly dismantled under his successor as ruler, King Juan Carlos. The grandson of the last Spanish king, he had grown up partly in Italy, and though he attended Spanish military academies, he become a liberal. In a 1971 visit to the United States, Juan Carlos openly stated that Spaniards “wanted more freedoms; the problem is deciding the timing.”

“Everything is tied up, and well tied up” (“Todo esta atado, y bien atado”) boasted Franco, referring to the institutional groundwork he put in place to ensure the regime’s survival without him.  The armed forces remained loyal to Franco and his regime and thus posed a very real threat to the judeo-democratic reforms that Juan Carlos wanted.

But by using a turncoat Francoist, Adolfo [sic] Suarez, as his prime minister, who initially pacified the worried Francoists, King Juan Carlos went on in early 1977 to legalize multiple political parties, which was absolutely anathema to fascism and national socialism. Other government decrees in the spring of 1977 set the rules for elections, legalizing even the Communist Party, and unions.

The two most important labor organizations that were legalized were associated with the Communist Party and the Socialist Workers’ Party. In the first year after Franco’s death, 150 million working days were lost to strikes compared to 14.5 million the previous year…. and so it began. In 1981, old-school Francoists tried to seize power, but King Juan Carlos denounced them in a general’s uniform on television, and the coup fizzled.

Now totally judaized, ahem, “democratized,” Spain, rotted out by the EU, is almost as disgustingly enslaved as France or Germany, with terrorist Muslims and negroes slaughtering Spaniards on the street

…and “gays” marching and flaunting their power everywhere.

Hate speech laws are rigorously enforced, and the charismatic nationalist Pedro Varela (subject of a Barnes Review article in 2006) has been repeatedly imprisoned, and his large Barcelona headquarters vandalized — and seized by the police with no pretext of legality at all. (Both I and Margaret spoke in Spanish at his headquarters and bookstore, in 2006 respectively and in 2012.)

One can only say that Hitler was right in Mein Kampf — unless you become “fanatic,” a word Hitler used constantly in a positive sense, we simply cannot win. No moderate can beat Jewish power. It is the Jews who are the ultimate fanatics, and we see who is winning.

Long live Degrelle – PRESENT!

Here now is the scanned article, with a transcript of the text after.)

LÉON DEGRELLE, MY FRIEND
by BLAS PIÑAR

The Spanish flag since the victory of Franco bears the slogan about Spain being “united, great and free”. Yet she  became a total slave to the EU, NATO and the Jews once Franco died, who refused to stand up to Jewry.

Blas Piñar in the 1950s — a great sympathizer with national socialism within the Francoist movement

[Spanish translation from http://www.alertadigital.com/2013/02/17/blas-pinar-mis-recuerdos-y-contactos-con-leon-degrelle-xx/ ]

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With Léon Degrelle I had a close friendship. It was a man who left upon me a very deep impression. His biography is impressive and his consistency exemplary. If today you choose “Miss World”, or a “Golden Globe” is awarded, or a “Man of the Year” is chosen, Léon Degrelle should be proclaimed “the ultimate role model of a political leader.”

I have never seen Leon Degrelle sad. He was overflowing with an inner Christian joy.

I am very conscious of one of his sentences: “I am only a temporary loser” and he always said this with a sweet smile.

“The life of Léon Degrelle,” wrote Francisco Torres Garcia, as recalled by José Luis Jerez in his Degrelle en el exilio 1945-94, “perhaps was closer to the plot of a good adventure movie than that of a simple mortal in our time “(in La Nación of April 13-19, 1994)

It was in Mexico, where Leon Degrelle awoke. He went to support the “Cristeros” (anti-Freemasonic, devout Mexican Christians) by his presence, because, he wrote in 1929, “the Mexican tragedy had long since sliced into my heart like a saw of steel.” He was so impressed by their cry of “Viva Cristos Rey!” [“Long live Christ the King”] under which they bravely died fighting for their faith as martyrs that he named his own movement “Rex” (“king” in Latin, as stated above.)

And it was Pope Pius X who, in his encyclical “Quas primas” of December 11, 1925, established the feast of Christ the King.

With the Walloon Legion he founded to help the German Wehrnmacht, he went off to fight against communism on the Eastern Front, and it is curious to know that even a battalion of Spaniards came to join it.

With Heinrich Himmler. Degrelle and his followers fought as part of the German Army in the east 1941-43, then switched to Himmler’s Waffen SS in 1943-45.

His arrival in Spain on May 8, 1945, when the Germans had been defeated, shook the country. It was on an abandoned German plane that he left Oslo, Norway, and with very little fuel. After a lot of difficulties [including flying over Allied-occupied France], he landed in San Sebastian.

Terribly injured, Degrelle was transferred to the local hospital. Antonio Vallejo Zaldo who, several years later presided over the “National Confederation of Veterans,” helped him in significant ways. He stated of Léon Degrelle that “only a man strong in body and soul could survive the tragic flight and the fractures and injuries sustained in this forced and dangerous landing.”

Little Spanish girls

My contacts with Leon Degrelle became more intense after an article I published in “Fuerza Nueva” [“New Force”] on February 21, 1970 (number 162).

It bore the title “Those [the Allies] who do not forgive.”

I protested in this article against the search and seizure order which, at the request of the Belgian Government, had been issued by the [Spanish-Francoist] Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gregorio López Bravo. If Degrelle had been captured under this order, he would have been extradited back to his native country, Belgium,  there to suffer the death sentence after conviction in absentia for a “crime” whose statute of limitations had been extended just for him!

From my article I wish to quote this part:

“The Belgian Government wanted to enforce its double death sentence on Leon Degrelle. They want to take him to the wall twice — shoot him down or hang him, or even hang him twice –after having shot or hanged him once, the first time alive, then shoot or hang him again when dead … All this to be sure they did not fail to kill him, fearing that the rope might not fulfill its mission of compressing his trachea. I hope to God that with his abilities and cleverness, Leon Degrelle can leave Spanish territory where he is now banned from living. “

When I read the government’s “Order of Search and Capture” for Léon Degrelle, as a Spaniard I felt such terrible shame. My indignation was even more profound when I learned that Léon Degrelle had obtained Spanish nationality in 1954! He was thus a Spaniard and therefore under our law not to be extradited!

One satisfying thing, however, came of this very unpleasant incident. It was the visit to me, and the expression of gratitude, and the friendship I enjoyed  from meeting Juan Servando Balaguer, the son-in-law of the Rexist leader.

Leon Degrelle’s life, let us be clear, was never easy in Spain. I joined the group that helped him not only to save him from the economic difficulties that beset him, but also for his own physical safety.

His enemies, always on the lookout, wanted to kill him, and his status as a political exile was not enough to enjoy the full and generous protection of the Spanish government.

Economic difficulties, yes, he could overcome them. But he could not escape his persecutors. People came from abroad periodically to take his life. Once, to avoid it, he sought refuge in a monastery; another time he was admitted as a “patient” to a hospital; and on yet another ocasion he was hidden in a city of the province of Ciudad Real.

To protect him by means of a name change, he was adopted, as an adult, of course, by a Spanish lady, Matilde Martínez Reina, and then changed his name, becoming “León Ramirez Reina.” It was I, as a notary, who drafted this act of adoption.

Leon Degrelle died at the age of 87 in Málaga on Thursday, 31 March (Holy Thursday) of 1994.

There was a funeral in the church of San Fermin de los Navarros on April 23, 1994 and on April 28 of that same year, a posthumous tribute was celebrated at the national headquarters of “Fuerza Nueva”, presided over by his widow, Jeanne Brevet.

José Luis Jerez Riesco there described our “Leon Degrelle, man, Christian, and political leader.” I closed the event, thanking Anne, a daughter of the deceased, for the tribute.

In memory of the honored person, José Luis Jerez organized a dinner each year. I went there several times and had the opportunity to say a few words.

I can neither marginalize nor fully reveal my very personal relationship with Léon Degrelle, which was at the same time both political and emotional. I remember one evening my wife and I ate dinner at his home. It was a pleasure to see his museum, and listen to his comments on life and world events. I also remember that I witnessed, along with Ramón Serrano Suner, the marriage of one of his daughters.

Léon and I had some very important correspondence, revealing his worries and his convictions. I reproduce some of these letters below, indicating their dates:

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April 19, 1971

Dear Don Blas:

This is your friend, Léon. My situation is always difficult. With evil rage they continue to persecute me, despite my absolute silence.

We know from an indisputable source that it was only during the last week that the Belgian embassy in Madrid sent three encrypted telexes about me, proof that they are preparing some new move.

See you soon, dear Don Blas, with my fraternal greeting.

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April 25, 1971:

Dear Blas,

I’m sorry to disturb you. You have so much to do. But I would be sorry to leave Madrid without seeing you for a little while. Always for me it’s the same old thing….

With my salute as a friend and comrade.

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December 23, 1977

Very dear Blas,

For your family as for you, a very happy Easter.

The year 1978 [Franco was gone and his system was being dismantled] is approaching with a very ugly face. You will have to fight to save Spain! May God bless you, Blas, giving you an enlightened soul, courage and physical strength. You will always have me fraternally at your side.

Courage! You can win! Very affectionately yours.

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I also reproduce the dedications of two of his books:

“To an admirable friend, Blas Piñar, champion of the ideal, with Léon Degrelle’s most affectionate solidarity.”

“To Don Blas Piñar, an exceptional man that Spain is lucky to have. With all my consideration, Léon Degrelle”

For her part, Jeanne, the widow of Léon Degrelle, wrote this dedication in another book by her husband which she kindly sent me:

“To Blas Piñar, in faithful memory of my husband who received so much from this land during his exile in Spain.”

Lèon Degrelle himself wrote the phrase “Today fully with Franco” in the introduction of his brochure “Franco, Head of State,” published by the “Franco-Hispanic Circle” as a supplement to number 67 of the “Letters of Franco-Spanish Friendship” of Spring 2006. In this introduction, we realize Leon Degrelle’s deep relationship with, and gratitude toward Spain.

Already, in 1934, José Antonio [Primo de Rivera] [= founder of the quasi-fascist Falange [from the Spanish word for “Phalanx”]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falange_Espa%C3%B1ola_de_las_JONS]
sent him the first membership card to be a member of the foreign branch of the Falange.

This was the song of the Phalangists “Cara al sol” (“Face in the sun”) composed by said Primo de Rivera http://ficheros.rumbos.net/en_a_01.mp3

Degrelle came to Spain in February 1939. He was received with the greatest affection. He had an interview back then with the victorious Francisco Franco in Lleida. In Pameline’s newspaper Arriba, Espana! [“Stand up, Spain!”]  they published on February 12, 1939 his article entitled “Rex Franco” [“King Franco”].

Later, in 1942, Degrelle received the Spanish “Medal of the Old Guard” (“Medalla de la vieja guardia”).

I also think it necessary to mention what Leon Degrelle said in early 1976 of Franco [after his death in November 1975] :

“Tomorrow, Europe, freed from its complexes, will thank Franco for his magnificent physical, moral, economic and strategic contribution to all that is essential for our survival.”

Anne, daughter of Rex’s head, said at the end of the commemoration to which I was referring earlier,

“I thank Spain, which, because of the Caudillo, gave refuge to my father. Therefore, we will never be grateful enough to you patriots.”

True to his doctrine, and referring to his electoral triumph in his native Belgium before the outbreak of the Second World War, he states in “Up”, February 7, 1970:

“I could have become a Cabinet minister; one word would have been enough to get into the game. But I wanted to liberate my country, and free it from the dictatorial rule of the forces of big money which corrupts all power, that distorts and manipulates consciences, and ruins our institutions.”

Let’s meditate on this sentence that Leon Degrelle wrote in “Almas ardiendo” (original title in French: “Les âmes qui brûlent”, meaning “Souls on fire”):

I will end this article with some praise uttered by José Utrera Molina about León Degrelle:

“I met very few men with the intellectual and moral energy of Léon Degrelle … one of the most important and motivating personalities of Europe at that time …” (Foreword to “Persist and Sign” by León Degrelle,” edited by Dyrsa, Madrid, 1968)

To this compliment, I add that of Bernardo Gil Mugurza:

“All the good people who knew the Belgian populist leader were captivated by the lucidity of his thought, the fidelity to his flag, his generous character and the goodness of his heart” (“Requiem for a great European.”

–Blas Piñar

…..Sidebar: Degrelle’s horrible first two years in Spain  

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…..Was Léon Degrelle ever a general in the Waffen-SS? 

Yes, but no! 😉

Degrelle “correctly” never referred to himself as a general after the war. During his very long Spanish exile (1945-94), and to the day he died, writing 40 books during that time, Degrelle was known only as a colonel.

But this was only because Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS, who had indeed promoted him to brigadier general (Brigadeführer), did not know at that time that he had already been fired by Hitler (for negotiating with the Allies without permission).

Degrelle was promoted to SS-Standartenführer (colonel) on 20 April 1945, Hitler’s birthday, by the way. On 1 May 1945, Degrelle was further promoted by SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler to Brigadeführer (brigadier general).

This promotion, however, was extralegal due to Himmler having been removed from office on Hitler’s orders on 28 April. But, to be fair, Himmler thought he was still in office as Reichsführer SS when he made Degrelle a general.

Admiral Karl Dönitz told Himmler later that very same day, on May 1, 1945, that he had been relieved by Hitler, who was now deceased. Himmler, shocked, nevertheless wanted to keep on serving under the new Reich President, Dönitz, but the strict Hitler loyalist told Himmler he was “out” for him, too.

Léon Degrelle was likewise a Hitler loyalist (to the max) and also he did not especially like Himmler, nor did most people. He resented what he perceived as a condescending tone in Himmler toward him, such as saying “Mein lieber Degrelle” (“My dear Degrelle”).

For both these reasons, Léon always refused to refer to his rank as general (actually, brigadier general) — out of respect for Adolf Hitler, and not liking Himmler much either, though he respected the man.

So, technically and legally, Degrelle was “only” a Standartenführer, a colonel, which is a very high rank, natürlich, and he got that promotion on a special day, his hero Hitler’s final birthday, which was April 20,1945.

In point of fact, Léon Degrelle, the most highly decorated foreign Waffen-SS officer, and a warrior who served for five years on the hellish eastern front, probably deserved the promotion to brigadier general that Heinrich Himmler did give him.

Too bad Himmler had just screwed up and been fired! By rights, the amazing Degrelle WAS a general of the legendary Waffen-SS.
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