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Robert Spencer himself sent me some information on CJ’s ‘book fair’

by savage ( 20 Comments › )
Filed under Europe, LGF at November 9th, 2008 - 3:24 pm

This is interesting information.

This seems to be some book fair of right-wing student organizations. I can see a lot of books on Flemish volunteers to the Eastern Front and the Verdinaso movement of the Belgian fascist Joris van Severen.
You can see his picture at 0:36.

Van Severen began his political career as an MP for the Flemish nationalists (and a democrat) in the 1920s, but later became pro-Belgian and founded a Belgian-nationalist fascist party “Verdinaso”, modelled on Mussolini’s party.
He admired Mussolini but loather Hitler and called on his followers to fight the Nazis in the event of an invasion of Belgium. Nevertheless he was arrested by the Belgians in the beginning of the war and murdered by French soldiers on 20 May 1940, together with a group of Belgian communists and Hungarian and Czech Jews, who had also been arrested by the Belgian authorities.
After his assassination his party fell apart. Some of his followers joined the resistance, others collaborated with the Germans.

Joris Van Severen ideological thinking was also influenced by Charles Maurras and Maurice Barrès, whilst failing to come to any accommodation with the Rexists or the Flemish National Union. Van Severen was equally opposed to Adolf Hitler and on the outbreak of World War II he banned his followers from producing any material in support of Nazism.

[edit] Execution

When Germany began executing Fall Gelb (the invasion of the Low Countries by Germany) in 1940 the Belgian government arrested him, together with many other Flemish-nationalist en communist politicians, and thousands of foreigners, and transported him to France for lack of space in Belgium. Van Severen belonged to a group of prisoners who was imprisoned in Abbeville, where, during havy German air attacks at May 20, he was shot with 20 other prisoners by French soldiers who thought they were dangerous spies.

The death of its leader left the Verdinaso without a leader and it soon began falling apart. Some Verdinaso-members joined forces with the Germans, others joined the (now almost completely unknown) resistance group Dietse Eenheid and others just stopped involving themselves in politics.

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The books you can see lying on the table (at 0:30) are

“Hitler une fatalite allemande” by Ernst Niekisch, a communist opponent of Hitler
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Ernst-Niekisch

the anti-immigration novel “Camp des Saints” by Jean Raspail

and “The Fenian Movement”, a book on Irish nationalism

As I have stated before, this is an email from Robert Spencer himself. Please note that Robert is not the source of the info.

I’m getting more from Mr. Spencer as I write so I will update as soon as I get it.

UPDATE: Here’s some more information on this important topic…

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