Marcel Bucard

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Marcel Bucard
Executed
Conviction(s)Treason
Criminal penaltyDeath

Marcel Bucard (7 December 1895 – 13 March 1946) was a French Fascist politician.

Early career

From left to right: Marcel Bucard, Paul Lafitte and J.-B. L'Herault (Jan. 1934)

A decorated soldier who earned a reputation for bravery in

Faisceau of Georges Valois
.

In September 1933, Bucard founded his own group, the

Stavisky Affair and accused of being intended as a coup d'état
.

In 1936, the new Popular Front government banned his movement and all other right-wing "leagues", fascist or otherwise, and Bucard was briefly imprisoned. His attempt to recreate the movement as a party (Parti franciste) in 1938 had little success, and it was outlawed as well.

World War II

After the

Waffen SS or French/foreign units in the National Socialist Motor Corps or the Kriegsmarine.[3]

Death

In 1946, after the German defeat, Bucard was sentenced to death for

References

  1. ^ Plaidoirie du Maître Landowski in Quatre procès de trahison devant la cour de justice de Paris (Paris: Les éditions de Paris, 1947), at pp. 61-64
  2. ^ Réquisitoire de M. le Procureur de la République Vassart in Quatre procès de trahison devant la cour de justice de Paris(Paris: Les éditions de Paris, 1947), p. 53.
  3. ^ Réquisitoire de M. le Procureur de la République Vassart in Quatre procès de trahison devant la cour de justice de Paris (Paris: Les éditions de Paris, 1947), at 46.
  4. ^ Réquisitoire de M. le Procureur de la République Vassart in Quatre procès de trahison devant la cour de justice de Paris (Paris: Les éditions de Paris, 1947)