Adrien Arcand

Adrien Arcand ( born October 3, 1899 in L' Immaculée - Conception near Montréal / Québec, Canada, † August 2, 1967 ) was a Canadian journalist, who in 1967 was director of several Nazi organizations in Canada from 1929 until his death. He described himself as a "Canadian leader."

Arcand published in this period, a number of anti-Semitic newspapers, including Le Goglu, Le Miroir and Le Chameau. He was referring financial support from the Canadian politician Richard Bedford Bennett, who was from 1930 to 1935 Canadian Prime Minister.

In 1934 he founded the Parti national social chrétien ( National Socialist Christian Party), which called for an anti-Communist policy and the deportation of all Canadian Jews to Hudson Bay.

On 30 May 1940 he was in Montreal for " conspiracy to commit coup d'état " ( " plotting to overthrow the state" ) was arrested and interned during the war as a security risk. His party, then the National Union Party, was banned. In prison, he sat on a throne built by inmates and talked about his government of Canada after the conquest by Hitler.

Arcand ran twice for the Canadian House of Commons and it reached 29% in 1949 and 1953, 39%. He never concealed his belief in Hitler and was in the 1960 Mentor of Ernst Zündel, a prominent Holocaust deniers now.

On November 14, 1965, he gave a speech to 900 supporters from across Canada in Montreal.