Léon Degrelle Archive

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, Léon Degrelle in Exile

The centenary of The Führer Adolf Hitler. General Léon Degrelle gives speech during 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 neo-NS scene”.

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

ᛣ 31.3.1994

Brussels, Sports Palace, June 27, 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 of the 100. Light-Infantry-Division), who awarded Léon Degrelle the Iron Cross Second Class on March 3, 1942, surrendered himself and his 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

Lance Corporal Léon Degrelle smile for the camera, Gromovaya-Balka, U.S.S.R., March 5, 1942.