Légion Française des Combattants

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1941-12/1943-01-23

The success of Joseph Darnand and his eagerness for action led him to set up in 1941-12 a paramilitary organization, Service d’Ordre Légionnaire, still nominally under the Légion Française des Combattants, to act against the ‘enemies’ of Vichy. Self-defined as anti-Semitic and anti-democratic in its 21-point program which members had to accept, it condemned Jews, Freemasons and communists and proclaimed a struggle ‘For French purity and against Jewish leprosy’. On 1943-01-23 the SOL was transformed into the Milice Française.