Roger Holeindre
{{Short description|French politician (1929–2020)}}
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Roger Holeindre ({{IPA|fr|ʁɔʒe ɔlɛ̃dʁ}}; 21 March 1929 – 30 January 2020) was a French Army veteran, politician and author. He served in the First Indochina War and the Algerian War, was a member of the National Assembly from 1986 to 1988. Holeindre also served as the vice-president of the National Front (FN) where he represented the "national-conservative" tendency, opposed to "nationalist revolutionaries" and Third Position ideologies.E. Lecoeur, Dictionnaire de l'extrême-droite, Larousse 2007, p.215 Holeindre was the president of the Cercle national des combattants and the honorary president of the Party of France.
Life and activism
Roger Holeindre was born on 21 March 1929 in Corrano, Corse-du-Sud.{{cite book|title=Holeindre, Roger (1929-....) forme internationale|url=http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb11907656t|website=Bibliothèque nationale de France|access-date=17 February 2017}}{{cite web|title=ROGER HOLEINDRE|url=http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/histoire/trombinoscope/Vrepublique/Legis08/holeindre-roger-21031929.asp|website=National Assembly|access-date=17 February 2017}} He grew up in Vosges and then Seine-Saint-Denis. In 1989, he wrote À tous ceux qui n'ont rien compris ("To those who haven't understood a thing") in which he claims to have stolen two machine guns from the Germans in August 1944 and that the operation got a friend killed. It has not been proven or denied he joined any Resistance organisation afterwards, but it can be assumed he never had any connection with the German occupation forces as he did not receive any jail sentence after 1945 (which was a pre-requisite to any investigation for suspicious persons about collaboration in France at that time).Roger Holeindre, À tous ceux qui n'ont rien compris, Robert Laffont, 1989
After working as a steel worker, he volunteered for the Indochina War in 1948 and later for the Algerian War. After being almost fatally wounded in the head, he was demobilized and lived in the city of Tebessa in the East of Algeria. He created there a youth center for education of Muslim locals. He joined the Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a right-wing terrorist movement opposed to the 1962 Évian 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 In 1962, Holeindre was sentenced to 14 years in prison for his involvement with the OAS, albeit he was amnestied after serving roughly 3.5 years. He then 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 in 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
Holeindre became a member of the political bureau of the National Front, created in 1972 by Jean-Marie Le Pen, along with François 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 and Pierre 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 revisionist Pierre Vial[https://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 {{in lang|fr}}), and Rolande Birgy (former resistant{{cite web|url=http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20689.pdf|title=Yad Vashem website|access-date=26 August 2017}}{{Cite book|title=Resisting the Holocaust: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors|last=Bartrop|first=Paul R.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2016|isbn=9781610698795|pages= 42}}). 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
Holeindre served as a member of the National Assembly for the Seine Saint Denis region from 1986 to 1988. He subsequently served as the vice-president of the FN. He also presided over the Cercle national des combattants (National veterant circle), a veteran association close to the FN. He supported Le Pen against Bruno Mégret's attempt to seize control of the FN, and claimed to follow Jean-Pierre Stirbois's nationalist and solidarist current.
Holeindre was part of the "TSM" current (Tous sauf Mégret, Anybody But Mégret), along with Samuel Maréchal, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Claude Martinez, and the Catholic current represented by Bernard Antony and Bruno Gollnisch, as well as Martine Lehideux.Erwan Lecoeur, 2007, pp.263–264 The split between Mégret and Le Pen started on 16 July 1997 meeting near Strasbourg during which Roger Holeindre started the hostilities, by stating that the FN, in the French colonial tradition, should return to a more "paternalist" approach on immigration issues, and criticized "ideological racialism" theories, targeting Nouvelle Droite supporters and former members of the Club de l'Horloge.
He supported Bruno Gollnisch during the campaign for the leadership of the National Front in 2010, defeated by his rival Marine Le Pen the following year.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2yXTDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT567|title=Les extrêmes droites en France: De 1945 à nos jours|last=Gautier|first=Jean-Paul|date=2017-05-12|publisher=Syllepse|isbn=9782849505700|pages=567|language=fr}} Roger Holeindre then joined the Party of France. He entered the political bureau in 2013 and became honorary president in 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://www.france-politique.fr/wiki/Le_Parti_de_la_France_(PDF)|title=Le Parti de la France (PDF) — France Politique|website=www.france-politique.fr|access-date=2019-08-17}}
Decorations
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Works
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=Le Levain de la colère|date=1963|publisher=Éditions Saint-Just|location=Paris|oclc=460642414}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=Honneur ou décadence|date=1965|publisher=Éditions du Fuseau|location=Meaux|oclc=7410783}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=Requiem pour trois sous-offs|date=1974|publisher=Presses SPIP|location=Aulnay-sous-Bois|oclc=949182205}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|last2=Marsal|first2=Marcel|title=Hanoï : combats pour un empire|date=1979|publisher=Éditions Jacques Grancher|location=Paris|oclc=373540022}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=Le rire du cosaque|date=1981|publisher=Robert Laffont|location=Paris|isbn=9782221006801|oclc=417426887}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=L'Asie en marche|date=1983|publisher=Robert Laffont|location=Paris|isbn=9782221009543|oclc=726267838}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=Aux larmes, citoyens!|date=1987|publisher=Robert Laffont|location=Paris|isbn=9782221053065|oclc=781898604}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=À tous ceux qui n'ont rien compris|date=1989|publisher=Robert Laffont|location=Paris|isbn=9782221058886|oclc=20949798}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=Le commando|date=1990|publisher=Camelot|location=Paris|isbn=9782878980011|oclc=33418369}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=Derrière mes barreaux|date=1990|publisher=Editions Albatros|location=Paris|oclc=25853652}}
- {{cite book|last1=Bariller|first1=Damien|last2=Holeindre|first2=Roger|title=S.O.S. hystérie|date=1992|publisher=Editions nationales|location=Paris|isbn=9782909178103|oclc=34883902}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|last2=Sanders|first2=Alain|title=Des Pavillons noirs à Diên Biên Phu|date=1997|publisher=Éditions Flanant|location=Limoges|isbn=9782911349034|oclc=490360774}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=Torture, ils ont dit torture ? Algérie, Vietnam, Cambodge... demain la France ?|date=1999|publisher=Cercle National des Combattants|location=Paris}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=Halte au révisionnisme ! : Des enfants de Goebbels et du KGB|date=2000|publisher=Éditions Godefroy de Bouillon|location=Paris|isbn=9782841911042|oclc=237384940}}
- {{cite book|last1=Arnaud|first1=Gilles|last2=Holeindre|first2=Roger|last3=Weber|first3=Nicolas|title=S.O.S. hystérie II|date=2003|publisher=Éditions Godefroy de Bouillon|location=Paris|isbn=9782841911561}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=L'imposture Viet-Minh|date=2004|publisher=Les Éditions d'Héligoland|location=Pont-Authou|isbn=9782952312806}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=Algérie : Imposture mensonges et trahisons|date=2005|publisher=Cercle National des Combattants|location=Paris}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=La Guerre psychologique ou les nouveaux collabos|date=2005|publisher=Les Éditions d'Héligoland|location=Pont-Authou|isbn=9782952312813}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=Moyen-Orient : Cent ans de mensonges|date=2007|publisher=Les Editions d'Héligoland|location=Pont-Authou|isbn=9782952312820|oclc=159955587}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=Trahisons sur commande : Histoire du parti communiste français|date=2008|publisher=Les Editions d'Héligoland|location=Pont-Authou|isbn=9782952312837|oclc=944231510}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=L'homme qui faisait se battre les Français entre eux : histoire du Gaullisme|date=2009|publisher=Les Editions d'Héligoland|location=Pont-Authou|isbn=9782952312868}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|last2=Sanders|first2=Alain|title=Ce qu'on ne vous a jamais dit sur Katyn|date=2010|publisher=Atelier Fol'fer|location=La Chaussée-d'Ivry|isbn=9782357910225}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=C'était des hommes : histoire vraie de la guerre d'Indochine|date=2013|publisher=Les Éditions d'Héligoland|location=Pont-Authou|isbn=9782914874939|oclc=866823745}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=Que Dieu sauve la France !|date=2015|publisher=Les Editions d'Héligoland|location=Pont-Authou|isbn=9782366110005|oclc=944229724}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=1935-2015, 80 ans de mensonges et de calomnies : ça suffit!|date=2015|publisher=Les Éditions d'Héligoland|location=Pont-Authou|isbn=9782366110081|oclc=946662448}}
- {{cite book|last1=Holeindre|first1=Roger|title=La Réconciliation Nationale : Lettre ouverte aux français musulmans|date=2016|publisher=Éditions Apopsix|location=Paris|isbn=9782359791280}}
References
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Sources
- Erwan Lecoeur, Dictionnaire de l'extrême-droite, Larousse 2007, {{ISBN|978-2-03-582622-0}}
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