Pierre Bousquet

Pierre Bousquet (; November 1919 – 27 August 1991) was a French journalist and far-right politician. A former section leader (Rottenführer) in the Waffen-SS Charlemagne Division, Bousquet was the first treasurer and a founding member of the National Front in 1972. Biography Early life and WWII Pierre Bousquet was born in November 1919 in Tours. He became a member of the youth movement of the Mouvement Franciste in 1936. In 1941 Marcel Bucard appointed him director of the commanding office of Jeunesse française. On 25 August 1943, Bousquet joined the Waffen-SS in Alsace and ended up with the rank of Rottenführer in the Charlemagne Division. 1950–1960s After the Fall of France in August 1944, he managed to convince the American troops that he had been a forced member of the Service du travail obligatoire, and was designated to be in charge of organizing the arrest and the return to France of former collaborationists. Back in Paris in 1946, he tried to infiltrate anti-communist movements with a group of former Waffen-SS in order to maneuver them. Bousquet then became an activist in the neo-fascist movement Jeune Nation led by Pierre Sidos in the late 1950s.