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Jacques Doriot was a French politician, initially communist, later fascist, before and during World War II. In 1936, after his exclusion from the French Communist Party, he founded the French Popular Party and took over the newspaper La Liberté.
Doriot enlisted in the French army when war broke out between France and Germany in 1939, and in 1940, as a sergeant, he commanded a unit that held back the.

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Jacques Doriot

French journalist, communist, later fascist politician

Jacques Doriot (French:[ʒakdɔʁjo]; 26 September 1898 – 22 February 1945) was a French politician, initially communist, later fascist, before and during World War II.

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

During the war, Doriot was a radical supporter of collaboration and contributed to the creation of the Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism (LVF). He fought personally in German uniform on the Eastern Front, with the rank of lieutenant.^[1]

Early life and politics

Doriot moved to Saint Denis, near Paris, at an early age and became a labourer. In 1916, in the midst of World War I, he became a committed socialist, but his political activity was halted by his joining the French Army in 1917. Participating in active combat during World War I, Doriot was captured by enemy troops and remained a prisoner of war until 1918

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Jacques Doriot was born in France in 1898. During the First World War Doriot served in the French Army and won the Croix de Guerre.

After the war Doriot became a member of the Communist Party and was elected mayor of Saint-Denis. However, in 1934 he left the party and impressed with the success of the Nazi Party in Germany formed the fascist Parti Populaire Francais (PPF) in 1936.

Doriot collaborated with the German occupation but support for the PPF declined during this period. Now a staunch anti-Communist, Doriot served with a French unit in German Army uniforms in the invasion of the Soviet Union.

Doriot returned to France in 1943 but after the D-Day landings he moved to Nazi Germany. Jacques Doriot was killed during an Allied bombing raid in February, 1945.

By John Simkin (john@spartacus-educational.com) © September 1997 (updated January 2020).

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Jacques Doriot

(b. Bresles, 26 Sept. 1898; d. Mengen, Germany, 23 Feb. 1945)

French; Communist and Fascist leader Doriot came from a working-class background, fought in the latter stages of the First World War, and in 1920 flung himself into the revolutionary politics of the newly formed Communist Party. Physically courageous and an aggressive speaker, imprisoned several times for his anti-colonial activities, he rose rapidly through the Communist hierarchy. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1924 and subsequently established a power base as deputy mayor of the working-class Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. His independence of judgement probably explains why he failed to become party leader in the early 1930s; and in 1934 he left the Communist Party when it failed to respond to the resurgence of mass anti-regime movements of the right. The irony is that within three years he was founder and leader of just such a movement, the Parti Populaire Français. The PPF was based on profound anti-Communism, and it was this that led Doriot in 1940 to offer his support to Pétain. Regar