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Léon Degrelle
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1941
January
05
Degrelle declares for Nazism
On 5 January 1941, at a rally in Liège, the Rexist leader Léon Degrelle proclaimed the kinship of Rex and Nazism and ended his speech with “Heil Hitler!”.
1944
August
18
The Courcelles massacre
On 18 August 1944 Rexists killed 19 hostages at Courcelles in revenge for the killing of Charleroi's mayor Oswald Englebin. In two days 27 civilians died.