Marcel Bucard
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Marcel Bucard | |
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Marcel Bucard (7 December 1895 – 13 March 1946) was a French Fascist politician.
Early career
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
Death
In 1946, after the German defeat, Bucard was sentenced to death for
French Waffen SS.[4]
References
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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)