Léon Degrelle:

Hitler,
born at Versailles

The First World War has long been overshadowed by the even more destructive conflict that followed within twenty years of its end, yet the "Great War" of 1914-1918 cost more than eight million dead and more than twenty million wounded. It shattered empires, spawned blood-drenched revolutions, and set the Third World ablaze with anti-colonial fervor. In a few short years the cataclysm that was the First World War laid low the crowned heads of half of Europe. And from the bloody trenches and bomb-cratered no-man's-lands of its most furious battles would spring forth a lonely and unsung German infantryman, Adolf Hitler, to put his stamp on the twentieth century as has no man before or since.

Author Léon Degrelle, a highly decorated combat veteran and a former confidante of the German Fuehrer at the height of his power, has exploited long-neglected documents in this comprehensive history of the war that ignited what he calls "The Hitler Century", the modern Iron Age of total war and fragile peace. His findings smash once and for all the myth of German war guilt. Degrelle argues with passion and eloquence that the corrupt leaders of France's Third Republic, the power-hungry intriguers of Pan-Slavism, the buccaneers of British imperialism, and the shadowy eminences of international finance and world Zionism unleashed and prolonged the carnage. He also exposes the sordid postwar maneuvers of the West's intellectually and morally bankrupt leaders, as they carved up a prostrate central Europe wracked by the alien contagion of Bolshevism.

Readers will learn the sinister secret of Sarajevo and the real culprits who sent the Lusitania to its doom; they'll penetrate the gloom that shrouds the real origins of today's Mideast conflict; they'll discover the hidden forces that brought Communism to Russia. They'll slog with British Tommies, French Poilus and German Landsers through the muck of Passchendaele and Verdun; ride with Lawrence through Arabia's sun-dazzled sands; plot with Lenin and a handful of conspirators in Zurich and St. Petersburg; battle Bolsheviks in furious street fights in Munich and Berlin. And those who read this book will grasp the key to the secret origins of Adolf Hitler: that the Third Reich's leader was born, not in Austria in 1889, but in 1919, at Versailles.

(535 pages, 16 x 23.5 cm, hardcover with dust jacket, 16 glossy pages of illustrations, index insert.)

The First World War has long been overshadowed by the even more destructive conflict that followed within twenty years of its end, yet the "Great War" of 1914-1918 cost more than eight million dead and more than twenty million wounded. It shattered empires, spawned blood-drenched revolutions, and set the Third World ablaze with anti-colonial fervor. In a few short years the cataclysm that was the First World War laid low the crowned heads of half of Europe.

Léon Degrelle:

Hitler, born at Versailles

The First World War has long been overshadowed by the even more destructive conflict that followed within twenty years of its end, yet the "Great War" of 1914-1918 cost more than eight million dead and more than twenty million wounded. It shattered empires, spawned blood-drenched revolutions, and set the Third World ablaze with anti-colonial fervor. In a few short years the cataclysm that was the First World War laid low the crowned heads of half of Europe. And from the bloody trenches and bomb-cratered no-man's-lands of its most furious battles would spring forth a lonely and unsung German infantryman, Adolf Hitler, to put his stamp on the twentieth century as has no man before or since.

Author Léon Degrelle, a highly decorated combat veteran and a former confidante of the German Fuehrer at the height of his power, has exploited long-neglected documents in this comprehensive history of the war that ignited what he calls "The Hitler Century", the modern Iron Age of total war and fragile peace. His findings smash once and for all the myth of German war guilt. Degrelle argues with passion and eloquence that the corrupt leaders of France's Third Republic, the power-hungry intriguers of Pan-Slavism, the buccaneers of British imperialism, and the shadowy eminences of international finance and world Zionism unleashed and prolonged the carnage. He also exposes the sordid postwar maneuvers of the West's intellectually and morally bankrupt leaders, as they carved up a prostrate central Europe wracked by the alien contagion of Bolshevism.

Readers will learn the sinister secret of Sarajevo and the real culprits who sent the Lusitania to its doom; they'll penetrate the gloom that shrouds the real origins of today's Mideast conflict; they'll discover the hidden forces that brought Communism to Russia. They'll slog with British Tommies, French Poilus and German Landsers through the muck of Passchendaele and Verdun; ride with Lawrence through Arabia's sun-dazzled sands; plot with Lenin and a handful of conspirators in Zurich and St. Petersburg; battle Bolsheviks in furious street fights in Munich and Berlin. And those who read this book will grasp the key to the secret origins of Adolf Hitler: that the Third Reich's leader was born, not in Austria in 1889, but in 1919, at Versailles.


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Hitler: Born at Versailles

(Leon Degrelle)

About the Author:

Leon Degrelle was born in 1906 in Bouillon, a small town in the Belgian Ardennes, to a family of French origin. He studied at the University of Louvain where he acquired a doctorate in law. He was also interested in other academic disciplines such as political science, art, archeology and Thomistic philosophy. As a student his natural gift of leadership became apparent.

By the time he reached twenty years of age he had already published five books and was operating his own newspaper. Out of his deep Christian conviction he joined Belgium's Catholic Action Movement and soon became one of its leaders. By the time he was 25 he had addressed more than 2, 000 meetings. His passion was people. He wanted to win the crowds, particularly the Marxist ones. He wanted them to share his ideals of social and spiritual renewal; to lift people up; to forge with them a stable, efficient and responsible State backed by the good sense of people and for their sole benefit. In a few short years he had won over a large part of the Belgian population, and on the 24th of May 1936 his Rexist party won a smashing electoral victory against the established parties: 34 house and senate seats. Mussolini invited him to Rome, Churchill saw him in London and Hitler received him in Berlin.

After joining the pan-European crusade against Soviet Communism, Leon Degrelle escaped unconditional surrender by flying some 1,500 miles across Europe to Spain, crash-landing on the beach of San Sebastian, critically wounded. But against all odds he survived, building a new life in exile for himself and his family.

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Léon Degrelle:

Hitler,geboren
 in Versailles

Der Versailler Vertrag wurde 1919 ohne Mitwirkung der Deutschen als der Hauptbetroffenen verfaßt, ihnen gegen ihren Protest und ultimativ mit Androhung der Verlängerung der Hungerblockade wie des alliierten Einmarsches aufgezwungen. Die darin vorgenommenen, vom Haß diktierten Gebietsabtretungen, Staatsneugründungen und Bildungen von ethnischen Minderheiten in fremdvölkischen Staaten belasteten Europa in der Folgezeit sehr, führten zu Adolf Hitler und verursachten den Zweiten Weltkrieg. Erst in unseren Tagen zerbrechen mit Jugoslawien und der Tschechoslowakei die letzten künstlichen Gebilde der Pariser Vorortverträge und machen endlich natürlicheren Ordnungen Platz.

Das Zustandekommen und die Hintergründe dieser unser ganzes Jahrhundert schicksalshaft bestimmenden Beschlüsse der Alliierten werden von Léon Degrelle meisterhaft geschildert. Er hat sein Leben lang gegen Marxismus und Bolschewismus gekämpft, in der katholischen Rex-Bewegung der 30er Jahre in Belgien, als Divisionskommandeur des Zweiten Weltkriegs im Osten, danach als historischer Schriftsteller. In diesem Werk hat der mit dem Eichenlaub ausgezeichnete höchstdekorierte ausländische Offizier der deutschen Wehrmacht vor allem französische Quellen der damaligen Zeit ausgewertet und daraus viele bezeichnende Einzelheiten zusammengetragen.

Hier liegt auch der Schlüssel zur Politik bis in unsere Tage. Wer die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts und die Ursachen des 2. Weltkrieges begreifen will, findet hier erschöpfende Antwort in mitreißendem Stil.

Über den Autor:
Léon Degrelle, geboren am 15. Juni 1906 in Bouillon/Luxemburg, Studium der Rechte. 1930 gründete er im wallonischen Belgien die katholische Rex-Bewegung, die sich für einen autoritären Ständestaat aus "natürlichen Gemeinschaften" (Familie, Berufsstand, Volk) und gegen die Parteien einsetzte und 1936 im Parlament 26 Sitze errang. Im Mai 1940 wurde er in Belgien verhaftet und nach Frankreich verschleppt, wo er von den Deutschen befreit wurde. Er trat als Freiwilliger der Waffen-SS bei, kämpfte im Osten (Rußlandfeldzug), war zuletzt Divisionskommandeur. 1944 mit dem Eichenlaub zum Ritterkreuz ausgezeichnet, war er der höchstdekorierte ausländische Offizier der deutschen Wehrmacht. Bei Kriegsende flog er von Oslo nach Nordspanien, wurde beim Flugzeugabsturz schwer verletzt und lebte nachdem in Spanien. Am 14. 12. 1945 wurde er in Belgien zum Tode verurteilt, das vergeblich von Spanien die Auslieferung verlangte.

[Degrelle starb 1994 in Malaga.]