Revolutionary Social Movement
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The Revolutionary Social Movement (in
The MSR supported the return of
A split in the RNP came after the Eastern Front opened up in July 1941, and the Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism was formed. Another frontman in the RNP was Marcel Déat, who had the confidence of Laval. When he found out that Deloncle was plotting against him, he had him and his faction removed from the RNP. Deloncle also took many member of the RNP's paramilitary wing with him.
In October 1941, Deloncle plotted against seven Parisian synagogues with the help of a local SS officer, Hans Sommer, who provided the explosives for the attack.
Further splits in the MSR happened over the next year, as Deloncle became more occupied with the LVF. The other factions then coalesced around
For a time in 1942, leadership passed to Jean Fontenoy.[1]
Filiol began plotting against Laval, whose government interned him in October 1942. The remaining Soulès faction of the MSR moved into an anti-German position but disappeared at the end of the war.
References
- Bertram M. Gordon (April 1975). "The Condottieri of the Collaboration: Mouvement Social Revolutionnaire". Journal of Contemporary History. 10 (2): 261–282. S2CID 143694710.
- Brunelle, Gayle K. (2020). Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781487588366.
- ^ Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1990, p. 130