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This is one of our first articles for TBR magazine in the Washington DC area, using my intro and then my and Margi’s translation from the French to English.
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4 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2005
AN INTRODUCTION TO “MY REVOLUTIONARY LIFE”
[This series was later turned into a book by TBR.]
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This article below was the featured cover story.
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THE BARNES REVIEW is delighted and proud to announce the return to our pages of Gen. Leon Degrelle of Belgium after a one-year hiatus that seemed 12 months too long for many of our readers.
After 10 years of le général’s piercing historical and military insights about prewar Europe and World War II,
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…..we have discovered in these pages another side of Degrelle, equally fascinating but very personal: the human who, like all great leaders, hid his suffering while the almost “super-human” leader, warrior and, later, unbowed leader in exile was out inspiring others. We meet a leather-tough visionary who experienced tragedies and triumphs like all mortals. But his were the great events of history, and he was the unique Leon Degrelle.
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This author of now 55 articles in THE BARNES REVIEW was in fact the last surviving World War II leader. Unlike ivory-tower historians who toe the establishment’s official line, Degrelle writes and speaks from personal encounters, discussions and hard questioning. He grilled Winston Churchill while dining with him at the House of Parliament restaurant. (Churchill confessed that were he a German he himself would be for Hitler.)
Degrelle discussed war strategy and the escape of the English at Dunkirk with Hitler, who admired the forthright and dynamic Degrelle greatly. As one military commander to another, he met with Spain’s nationalist leader Francisco Franco, who later rescued him from violent postwar leftists. And he debated a Benito Mussolini whose strengths and weaknesses young Degrelle quickly penetrated.
A brilliant student of law, political science, religion, archeology, art and philosophy, at 26 Degrelle used his mind and heart to found the Rexist Party to end the ruthless rule of Belgium’s plutocrats and create a “national community” inspired by national and Christian values. By
age 29 he was the biggest vote getter in the Belgian Parliament, getting 36 Rexist deputies elected with his spellbinding writing, oratory and superhuman energy.
My Revolutionary Life will explain how this private man from a small French-speaking village could become the fiery political leader who turned Belgium upside down.
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It makes clear how a brilliant intellectual could thereafter switch from speeches to action when the war came, founding his own regiment of elite Waffen-SS infantry on the dreaded Eastern Front. There, the one-time wordsmithrose quickly from private to a supremely honored and decorated colonel through hand-to-hand combat and military leadership on the alternately fiery or freezing RussianFront. Degrelle the warrior was also Degrelle the mourner: of the 800 men in his regiment fighting the Red steamroller, only he and two comrades survived.
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Degrelle and his wife and children in Brussels, where he was on leave from commanding a Wehrmacht volunteer infantry company consisting of his fellow Walloons (French-speaking Belgians) on the Russian front. ( Later, this super warrior switched over to the Waffen-SS, and the onetime writer and speechmaker rose from private to general!) He is shown here with the four youngest of his eight children and his devoted wife Jeanne. After the war, Degrelle’s children were forcibly taken from him and his wife and spread across Germany. He later managed to find them all, and Degrelle reunited the family in Spain under the protection of Francisco Franco.
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We present here Leon Degrelle (1906-1994) dealing with successes, enduring persecutions and slander, and finding the humor and inner fire to continue slaying hishypocritical foes with the word and the pen while inspiring the next generations of militants for the West.
The following is chapter one of Leon Degrelle’s My Revolutionary Life.
Leon Degrelle, always the visionary, gazes over the Bay of Malaga, Spain. This photo was taken in the 1990s when Degrelle was in his 80s and writing My Revolutionary Life.
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  1. http://www.renegadetribune.com/the-myths-purpose/

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    The Myth’s Purpose
    July 26, 2017 renegade 0 Comments
    By Alfred Rosenberg

    No one factor accounts for a myth. It is a part of one’s whole heritage. It is born in the person. Even if an individual becomes a part of another culture he is called, deep down inside, by his own myth. It is a sum total of the culture, mores, folkways, customs, art, traditions, legends, history, experience and will of his own race, and it is even more than these things. It is the embodied vital will of great men. It is the contributions, defeats failures, hopes, aspirations and accomplishments of the ethnically-related members of the group.

    Here, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The myth is the scaffolding, the superstructure on which all these other things are constructed. It is the skeleton around which the organic body is built. It is the framework which is covered over by a whole beautiful building. It is the form upon which, bit by bit, piece by piece, yard by yard, a people develop. But without the ordering of a myth, the people are merely a helter-skelter collection of all these various facts and facets.

    The myth may begin as a single event. It is the factor which makes all the contributing elements coalesce around the one central event. In and of itself, it defies rational description. It cannot be wholly isolated for it works not only on the body of man but on his spirit. It works not a physical spell but a metaphysical one. It touches not man’s outer being but his inner self, his spirit, his true personality.

    A nation without a vital myth drifts aimlessly throughout history. Myth gives purpose and meaning to the civilization. Myth makes a people a nation and a nation a race and a race a contributor to the world. Myth shapes the race so that the race may fulfill the potential of its individuals. The myth makes us conscious that we are a race, and not merely an arbitrary, purposeless, ill-defined conglomerate of men and women.

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    • Thanks – excellent!

      In 1997 I translated into English for the small publishing house of my late, great friend Ralph Grandinetti, a former Rockwell stormtrooper (front and center, with dark hair),

      …. the 1944 essay by Rosenberg commemorating the 100th anniversary of Nietzsche’s birth. I need to find it. Rosenberg showed where Nietzsche was great and where he was way off-base, especially on the Jewish issue.

    • Thanks for your kind thoughts, comrade, and also for donations.

      Faith without works is dead.

      As the expression goes, “Tell it to the Marines.” 😉 And it just so happens I am a Marine. 🙂 When your check is in the mailbox to save Margi from death by cancer, I will believe your prayers are sincere.

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