- Roger Holeindre
Roger Holeindre (
Corrano ,Corsica ,March 21 ,1929 , nicknamedPopeye by his supporters [ [http://www.frontnational.com/doc_interventions_detail.php?id_inter=6 Jean-Marie Le Pen's speech (September 26th 1998)] ] ) is aFrench politician , vice-president of the National Front (FN) far-right party. He is a representant of the “national-conservative ” tendency, opposed to the “nationalist revolutionaries” [ E. Lecoeur, "Dictionnaire de l’extrême-droite", Larousse 2007, p.215 ] (closer toThird Position ideologies). Holeindre was part of the “TSM” current (Tous sauf Mégret, Anybody But Mégret), along withSamuel Maréchal ,Marine Le Pen ,Jean-Claude Martinez , and the Catholic current represented byBernard Antony andBruno Gollnisch , as well asMartine Lehideux Erwan Lecoeur, 2007, pp.263-264 ] . Holleindre is the president of the "Cercle national des combattants", a veterans associations close to the FN [ [http://fnsevran.free.fr/pages/cnc_fete2002.htm Roger Holeindre's website] ] .Life and activism
In 1989, he wrote "À tous ceux qui n'ont rien compris" ("To those who haven't understood a thing") in which he claims having stolen two
machine guns from the Germans in August 1944. During this alleged operation, a friend of his would have been killed. Nevertheless, he never joined any Resistance organisation [ Roger Holeindre, "À tous ceux qui n'ont rien compris", Robert Laffont, 1989] .A volunteer for the Indochina War and then the
Algerian War , he joined theOrganisation armée secrète (OAS), a right-wingterrorist movement opposed to the 1962Evian Accords which granted independence to Algeria. Holeindre also founded the FAF (Front pour l’Algérie Française, Front for French Algeria) [ E. Lecoeur, op.cit., p.53 ] . He met with Bruno Gollnisch in this period [ E. Lecoeur, op.cit., p.165 ] . After being given a prison sentence for his involvement with the OAS, he worked as a reporter for "Paris-Match ", while in the same time counselling young "Occident"far-right activists.In January 1968, Holeindre founded the "Front uni de soutien au Sud-Viêt-Nam" (United Front in Support of South Vietnam) and supported the US war effort [ E. Lecoeur, 2007, pp.232-233 ] . Occident actively participated to this Front. Holeindre also maintained contacts with the direction of the WACL (World Anticommunist League), supported by the Taiwanese authorities René Monzat, "Enquêtes sur la droite extrême",
Le Monde -éditions, Paris, 1992, p.107 ] . "Présent ", a newspaper close to the FN, then published the congratulations telegram sent to Holeindre after his election as deputy in 1986 by the President of the WACL and President of the National Assembly of Taiwan,Ku Chen Kang [ Monzat quotes "Présent ", 11 April 1986 ] .Roger Holeindre then became member of the political bureau of the National Front, created in 1972 by
Jean-Marie Le Pen , along withFrançois Brigneau [ E. Lecoeur, 2007, p.35 ] . When the “nationalist revolutionary” tendency of the French far-right founded, in 1972, the "Front national pour l’unité française " (FNUF, National Front for French Unity, original name of the FN), they opened it to their rivals of the “national-conservative” tendency. Thus, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Roger Holeindre andPierre Durand (a former Poujadist) sieged at the side of the “nationalists”François Brigneau ,Alain Robert ,Pierre Bousquet (former Waffen-SS) [ Lecoeur, 2007, p.214 ] ,Jean Vallette d'Osia (former resistant who later testified in favor of the revisionistPierre Vial [ [http://www.humanite.fr/1997-11-26_Articles_-Constant-Paisant-le-FN-veut-annexer-un-symbole-antifasciste Constant Paisant : le FN veut annexer un symbole antifasciste] , "L'Humanité ", 26 November, 1997 fr icon] ), andRolande Birgy (former resistant [ [http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20689.pdf Yad Vashem website] ] Verify source|date=September 2007). After the first split, at the end of 1973 (leading to the creation of the PFN),François Duprat continued to represent the “nationalist” tendency inside the FN [ Lecoeur, p.214 ] .He was deputy of the
Seine Saint Denis region in 1986-88, and then became vice-president of the party. He also presides the "Cercle national des combattants" (National veterant circle), a veteran association close to the FN. He supported Le Pen againstBruno Mégret 's attempt to seize control of the FN, and claims to followJean-Pierre Stirbois 's nationalist andsolidarist current.The split between Mégret and Le Pen started at the July 16, 1997 meeting near Strasbourg, during which Roger Holeindre started the hostilities, by stating that the FN should return to a more paternalist approach of immigration issues (in the French colonial tradition) and criticized “ideological
racialism ” theories, targeting the "Nouvelle Droite " supporters and former members of the "Club de l’Horloge " .References
Bibliography
*Roger Holeindre, "A Tous ceux qui n'ont rien compris",
Robert Laffont , 1989 ISBN 978-2221058886
*Erwan Lecoeur, "Dictionnaire de l’extrême-droite",Larousse 2007, ISBN 978-2035826220
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