Pierre Daye (1892, Schaerbeek, Belgium – 1960,

Buenos Aires, Argentina Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

) was a Belgian journalist and Nazi collaborator. As supporter of the

Rexist Party The Rexist Party (french: Parti Rexiste), or simply Rex, was a far-right Catholic, nationalist, authoritarian and corporatist political party active in Belgium from 1935 until 1945. The party was founded by a journalist, Léon Degrelle,

, Daye exiled himself to Juan Peron's Argentina after

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Biography

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Daye served in the

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on the

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and in

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. In 1918 he published a book about his experiences in the

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. Pierre Daye was in charge of foreign politics in the ''Nouveau Journal'', a newspaper supporting the

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thesis created in October 1940 by Paul Colin and under the direction of Robert Poulet. Daye was a shareholder in the Editions de la Toison d'Or created during the war (out of a total of 150 shares, 135 were owned by the Slovak group Mundus, which was responsible to the Reich Foreign Affairs Minister headed by

Joachim von Ribbentrop Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (; 30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. Ribbentrop first came to Adolf Hitler's not ...

.) . Daye was a correspondent of ''

Je suis partout ''Je suis partout'' (, lit. ''I am everywhere'') was a French newspaper founded by , first published on 29 November 1930. It was placed under the direction of Pierre Gaxotte until 1939. Journalists of the paper included Lucien Rebatet, , the illu ...

'', the ultra-collaborationist French language review headed by

Robert Brasillach Robert Brasillach (; 31 March 1909 – 6 February 1945) was a French author and journalist. Brasillach was the editor of ''Je suis partout'', a nationalist newspaper which advocated fascist movements and supported Jacques Doriot. After the liberat ...

. He was sentenced to death as a collaborator on 18 December 1946, by the Brussels War Council.Extradiciones
Argentina-rree.com; accessed 14 November 2016.

Escape and aftermath

After the war, he fled to Argentina with the help of

Charles Lescat Charles Lescat (19 February 1887 – 1948) was an Argentine citizen, who studied in France and wrote in ''Je suis partout'', the ultra- Collaborationist journal headed by Robert Brasillach. Born as Carlos Hipólito Saralegui Lesca in Buenos Ai ...

, who also worked at ''Je suis partout''. There, he took part in the meeting organized by

Juan Perón Juan Domingo Perón (, , ; 8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine Army general and politician. After serving in several government positions, including Minister of Labour and Vice President of a military dictatorship, he was elected P ...

in the ''

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'' during which a network (colloquially called

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) was created, to organize the escape of war criminals and collaborationists.La Odessa que creó Perón
'' Pagina/12'', 15 December 2002. Along with countryman René Lagrou and others such as

Jacques de Mahieu Jacques de Mahieu, whose real name was Jacques Girault, (31 October 1915 – 4 October 1990) was a French Argentine anthropologist and Peronist. He wrote several books on esoterism, which he mixed with anthropological theories inspired by sci ...

, Daye became central to the Nazi escape routes.

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, ''The Real ODESSA'', London: Granta Books, 2003, pp. 110-14. In Argentina, Daye resumed his writing activities, becoming the editor of an official

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review.

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Peron's Nazi Ties
''

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'', 9 November 1998, vol 152, n°19 He returned to Europe where he wrote his memoirs, and died in 1960 in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Daye, Pierre 1892 births 1960 deaths 20th-century Belgian journalists People from Schaerbeek Rexist Party politicians Members of the Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) Belgian Army personnel of World War I Male journalists Belgian collaborators with Nazi Germany Belgian emigrants to Argentina Nazis in South America Date of birth missing Date of death missing

Biography

Escape and aftermath

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