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Oh no, not Rassemblement National, a party literally founded by ex Nazis.

I can't find evidence of this. it looks like RN was founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was too young to serve in WWII. He has said a lot of antisemitic things though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Le_Pen

You did not look very closely then. The founders list includes : Pierre Bousquet (ex SS division Charlemagne), Emmaneul Allo (judged and condemned nazi collaborator), Léon Gaultier (Waffen-SS) and more (not listing OAS and GUD). All of this is known and documented.

I only went from Wikipedia. thank you for providing the other founders, I genuinely didn't find them (my fault for presuming it'd be documented on the wiki page.)

like, incredibly naive of me in retrospect, but Ctrl+F Gaultier shows nothing on the National Front's wiki article, and Bousquet only shows one hit (where it doesn't mention his SS affiliation at all.) I expected the wiki article to be slanted, but not whitewashed clean of all Nazi ties like it apparently has been.

Then you didn’t really look into it.

Go on? Source?

Look up Pierre Bousquet et Leon Gaultier. Go on?

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