Pierre Daye (24 June 1892, Schaerbeek, Belgium – 24 February 1960,

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) was a Belgian journalist and Nazi collaborator. As supporter of the Rexist Party, Daye exiled himself to Juan Peron's Argentina after

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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 Battle of Tabora. 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

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.) Daye was a correspondent of '' Je suis partout'', the ultra-collaborationist French language review headed by Robert Brasillach. 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, 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 military officer and Statesman (politician), statesman who served as the History of Argentina (1946-1955), 29th president of Argentina from 1946 to Revolución Libertad ...

in the ''

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'' during which a network (colloquially called ratlines) 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, 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. Mark Falcoff
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 Belgian male journalists Belgian Nazi propagandists Belgian expatriates in Argentina Nazis who fled to Argentina Nazis sentenced to death in absentia by Belgium

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Escape and aftermath

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