" To Arms for Europe

Speech delivered at Paris, March 5, 1944, at the Palais de Chaillot


It is no longer possible for these hundreds of thousands of men to be dead, borne by the most sublime virtues, so that we can then return to the dunghill of mediocrity, baseness, and vileness. The front creates not only the forces of salvation on the military ground, the revolutionary forces that will pass through everything tomorrow, but it prepares the revolution that is most necessary to Europe: the spiritual revolution. We need straight and pure men, who know that the highest joys of man are in the soul. We will no longer admit the mediocrity of souls, we will no longer admit that men live for sordid joys, for their egoism, in a narrow atmosphere. We want to raise. peoples, restore their appetite, greatness. We want people to have these sovereign joys to rise above everyday life.

That is why, my dear comrades, we must be united. Europe set against communism, to defend our civilization, our spiritual patrimony and our old cities, must be united, and each people deserve its place, not by adding the past, but by giving the blood that is washing and who purifies. Europe must be united to realize, under the sign of the SS, the national socialist revolution, and to bring to souls, the revolution of souls. "

― Leon Degrelle