- Reimond Tollenaere
Reimond Tollenaere (
Oostakker June 29 ,1909 – Kopzy, near Veliki NovgorodJanuary 22 ,1942 ) was an SS-"Untersturmführer " and member of the Vlaams Nationaal Verbond (V.N.V.), a right-wing Flemish nationalist party.Tollenaere became active in the Flemish nationalist movement during his law studies at the university ofGhent . He became propaganda leader of the V.N.V. and in 1936 he became a member of parliament. At the beginning ofWorld War II in May 1940 he was arrested by the Belgian authorities and spent some time in prison inFrance . After his liberation he resumed his political activities. In 1941 after the beginning of operation Barbarossa, the German invasion in theSoviet Union , Tollenaere became active in the recruitment of Flemish volunteers for the Eastern front. He was a volunteer himself and as such he died as a result offriendly fire of the Spanish Blue Division on theLeningrad front, in the region of (Veliki) Novgorod in January 1942.References
* "Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890" edited by Philip Rees, 1991, ISBN 0-13-089301-3
External links
* [http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/BELGIUM/Flanderspolit.html Flemish Nationalist Political Parties]
* [http://axis101.bizland.com/FlemishAward3.htm Image of The Tollenaere Honor badge]
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