What some people think they
“know” about Hitler and his era is nothing close to the truth. In Hitler
Democrat the other side of the story is told, as only the great General
Leon Degrelle of the Waffen-SS could tell it.
This tremendous work is unlike
any other book about World War II – and Adolf Hitler – available anywhere on
the face of the planet today. Longtime subscribers of The Barnes Review are
familiar with General Degrelle’s remarkable story. When this vibrant Warrior
for the West – a much-decorated survivor of the brutal Eastern Front – died in
Spain in 1994, he was the last surviving major figure of World War II, a
statesman and soldier (at one point the youngest political leader in Europe)
acquainted with all of the big names of the European arena, including
Churchill, Mussolini, Franco, Laval, Petain and many others, including,
needless to say, Adolf Hitler himself.
In fact, Hitler once said
that, if he were to have a son, he would want him to be like Leon Degrelle. So
it’s more than fitting that in his final years, the retired Belgian general was
working relentlessly on the manuscripts that today make up the pages of Hitler
Democrat.
The original typescript of
this book, written in the early 1990s, had been temporarily lost, but both
Degrelle’s wife, Jeanne, and publisher Willis Carto still held earlier drafts
of some of Degrelle’s writings. Through a laborious process of careful
reconstruction, the staff of The Barnes Review were able to literally
resurrect Degrelle’s lost work.
And today, that material
appears here in Hitler Democrat for the first time. In the
end, this volume is not only a monumental work of history, a genuine epic, but
it is also, in its own fashion, a tribute to the man behind it: General Leon
Degrelle.
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