Marcel Bucard

Marcel Bucard (1936)

Marcel Bucard (born December 7, 1895 in Saint-Clair-sur-Epte , Département Seine-et-Oise , † March 13, 1946 in Fort Châtillon , Département Seine ) was a fascist French politician .

Life

Bucard's original career aspiration was a priest . However, he took part in the First World War as a soldier and was active after 1918 initially in politics as a member of the Action française , later as a member of the openly fascist and anti-Semitic Faisceau of Georges Valois . He attended meetings of the Fédération nationale catholique (FNC), a Catholic lay organization, where he gave speeches.

In September 1933, Bucard formed his own political group, the Mouvement Franciste (Frankist movement), probably the most extreme group of its time and temporarily funded by Benito Mussolini's government. In the riots in front of the Palais Bourbon (in protest against the Stavisky affair and probably planned as a coup d'état modeled on Mussolini's march on Rome ) on February 6, 1934, the Francistes took part along with other right-wing extremist parties. As a result, the Popular Front government of Léon Blum banned the Mouvement Franciste together with other fascist groups in June 1936. Bucard was briefly arrested. His attempt in 1938 to turn his “movement” into a party ( Parti Franciste ) was ultimately unsuccessful.

After the defeat of France in June 1940, the establishment of the Vichy regime and the beginning of the German occupation of the French northern zone, Bucard's Parti Franciste became active again from 1941 with financial support from Vichy, now as a group collaborating with Nazi Germany . Their importance in this period was limited, however, as Bucard suffered from old war wounds and was often absent.

Together with other fascist collaborators such as Jacques Doriot and Marcel Déat , he founded the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchévisme (LVF; Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism ) or Légion anti-bolchévique or Légion tricolore , in which French volunteers in uniforms of the armed forces meet involved in the war against the Soviet Union . Later, the remnants of this legion, as well as Dutch , Walloon , Flemish , Norwegian , Spanish , Romanian , Hungarian , Latvian and Croatian volunteer associations were integrated into the Waffen-SS .

Bucard was after the liberation in February 1946 for treason sentenced to death and executed a month later. On the way to his execution he sang, "I am a Christian, this is my honor."

Works

• Nous n'avons aucun goût pour l'esclavage! Discours de Bucard prononcé à la salle Lancry le 5 octobre 1941 au Congrès restreint du Francisme à Paris. Publisher Le Franciste, Paris 1941 (24 pages)

literature

• Alain Deniel: Bucard et le francisme. Ed. J. Picollec, Paris 1979

Web links

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