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Léon Degrelle

1906 to 1994 9 documented presences 9 places

Quo Fuit places 9 dated presences for Léon Degrelle across 9 places, from 1906 to 1994. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle (15 June 1906 – 31 March 1994) was a Belgian Walloon politician and Nazi collaborator.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Léon Degrelle was documented, and when

15 June 1906exact date
Bouillon, Belgiumattested “Léon Degrelle was born on 15 June 1906 in Bouillon, in the Belgian province of Luxembourg, and baptized five days later as Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
15 May 1940exact date
Brugesattested “Degrelle was first imprisoned in Bruges, then was transferred to French custody on 15 May 1940 and interrogated at Dunkirk, and then moved to the Camp Vernet internment camp in southern France as the military situation deteriorated amid…” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
15 May 1940exact date
Dunkirkattested “Degrelle was first imprisoned in Bruges, then was transferred to French custody on 15 May 1940 and interrogated at Dunkirk, and then moved to the Camp Vernet internment camp in southern France as the military situation deteriorated amid…” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
15 May 1940exact date
Camp Vernetattested “Degrelle was first imprisoned in Bruges, then was transferred to French custody on 15 May 1940 and interrogated at Dunkirk, and then moved to the Camp Vernet internment camp in southern France as the military situation deteriorated amid…” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
1942year
Berlinattested “In 1942, Degrelle began lobbying for the integration of Walloons into the SS, and in June made a brief visit to Berlin to meet with Nazi functionaries and Rex's interim leaders.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
1969year
Belgiumattested “In 1969, Degrelle began a media campaign to be allowed to return to Belgium.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
1979year
Auschwitz concentration campattested “In 1979, ahead of Pope John Paul II's visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Degrelle wrote an open letter to the Pope.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
29 January 1984exact date
Niceattested “She died in Nice on 29 January 1984.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
31 March 1994exact date
Málagaattested “On 31 March 1994, Degrelle died of cardiac arrest in a hospital in Málaga.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle

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Places Léon Degrelle is documented in

Auschwitz concentration camp1 presence · 1979Belgium1 presence · 1969Berlin1 presence · 1942Nice1 presence · 1984
Bouillon, Belgium1 presence · 1906
Bruges1 presence · 1940
Camp Vernet1 presence · 1940
Dunkirk1 presence · 1940
Málaga1 presence · 1994

Other places tied to Léon Degrelle in the record

In each of these, a source puts Léon Degrelle and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Léon Degrelle was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

27 July 1927exact date
Namurmentioned “Shortly after his failure at Namur, Degrelle was admitted into the prestigious Catholic University of Leuven, which awarded him a diploma of candidacy in philosophy and literature on 27 July 1927.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
1929year
Mexicomentioned “In 1929, with Wallez's support, Degrelle traveled to Mexico to report on the Cristero War, a rebellion of Mexican Catholics against the incumbent anti-clerical government.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
2 November 1935exact date
Kortrijkmentioned “To that end, on 2 November 1935, in an event dubbed the Kortrijk Coup (coup de Courtrai), Degrelle and a party of Rexists interrupted a meeting of Catholic Party leaders at Kortrijk.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
1936year
Carcassonnementioned “On 22 July, Rexist journalist Pierre Daye discovered Degrelle in Carcassonne with the assistance of Otto Abetz, a German diplomat Degrelle had met in 1936.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
26 September 1936exact date
Germanymentioned “On 26 September 1936, he met with Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler in Germany to establish relations with the Nazi Party.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
March 1937month
Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)mentioned “In March 1937, Alfred Olivier, who had been among the Rexists elected to the Chamber of Representatives, resigned with his staff.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
1940year
Wehrmachtmentioned “Degrelle, who had petitioned the military administration for Rexist units in the German armed forces over late 1940, began to recruit Walloons for a Rexist brigade in the NSKK.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
17 January 1943exact date
Brusselsmentioned “On 17 January 1943, Degrelle gave a speech at an assembly of Rexists in Brussels in which he declared that Walloons were a Germanic people forced to adopt the French language.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
24 May 1943exact date
Rastenburgmentioned “On 23–24 May 1943, Degrelle met with Himmler near Rastenburg (Kętrzyn) to discuss the transfer of the Walloon Legion from the German Army to the Waffen-SS.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
28 January 1944exact date
Battle of the Cherkassy Pocketmentioned “On 28 January 1944, the Legion was trapped by the Red Army in the Cherkassy pocket.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
28 January 1944exact date
Cherkassymentioned “On 28 January 1944, the Legion was trapped by the Red Army in the Cherkassy pocket.” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
August 1985month
Auschwitzmentioned “In its July–August 1985 issue, the Spanish magazine Tiempo published an interview with Degrelle in which he repeated his skepticism about the Holocaust, and claimed that Josef Mengele, an SS officer stationed at Auschwitz, was an ordinar…” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle
7 November 1985exact date
Madridmentioned “The lawsuit went to court in Madrid on 7 November 1985 and was based on the Ley Orgánica 1/82 of 5 May 1982 and the Ley 62/78 of 26 December 1978, protecting the same rights, as Trías realized that it was not possible to sue Degrelle for…” source: Wikipedia: Léon Degrelle

Documented at the same place, the same year

BrassaïNice · 1984Vidkun QuislingBerlin · 1942Carl Friedrich GoerdelerBerlin · 1942Kurt GersteinBerlin · 1942Gottfried JohnBerlin · 1942

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