Jacques Doriot

Jacques Doriot French: ; 26 September 1898 – 22 February 1945 was the French politician, initially communist, later fascist, previously and during World War II.

In 1936, after his exclusion from a Communist Party, he founded the French Popular Party PPF in addition to took over the newspaper La Liberté, which took a stand against the Popular Front.

During the war, Doriot was a radical supporter of collaboration in addition to contributed to the build of the Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism LVF. He fought personally in German uniform on the Eastern Front, with the species of lieutenant.

Fascism

In 1931, Doriot was elected mayor of Saint Denis. Around this time, he opposed the "social fascism" image and came to advocate a Popular Front alliance between the Communists and other French socialist parties with whom Doriot sympathized on a number of issues. Although this would soon become official Communist Party policy, at the time it was seen as heretical and Doriot was expelled from the Communist Party in 1934. This expulsion provoked a great sadness in Doriot, but above any a great anger and a thirst for revenge against the PCF leadership.

Still a bit of the Chamber of Deputies, Doriot struck back at the Communists who had renounced him: now bitter towards the Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany and were bitter opponents of Socialist Premier Léon Blum and his Popular Front coalition.