Jacques de Mahieu explained

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 scientific racism.[1]

He joined the Action Française at a young age. A collaborationist in Vichy France and member of the Waffen-SS, he fled to Argentina after the liberation of France from the Nazis. He became a Peronist ideologue in the 1950s, mentor to a Roman Catholic nationalist youth group in the 1960s, and later in life, head of the Argentine chapter of Spanish neo-Nazi group CEDADE.

Biography

Early life and World War II

He was born in Marseille, France. As a young man he was influenced by authors such as Georges Sorel, Charles Maurras, and Alexis Carrel[2] and joined the Action Française.[3]

During World War II, he was a member of the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne.[4] [5]

After the liberation of France, he was one of the first to flee to Juan Perón's Argentina through the ratlines organized by Perón. A naturalized Argentine,[6] he became an ideologue of the Peronist movement, before becoming a mentor to a Roman Catholic nationalist youth group in the 1960s.[7]

Academic career

De Mahieu studied at the Universities of Mendoza and Buenos Aires; he graduated in philosophy, as doctor Honoris Causa of Medicine, doctor in economic sciences, and doctor in political science.[2]

He became a professor of anthropological studies in Buenos Aires as the deputy rector[8] of the Institute of Human Studies (from 1953 to 1955 and again from 1972 to 1976). He also taught economy, ethnography and French at the National University of Cuyo[3] (1948–1955), and at the Universidad del Salvador (1964–1965).[2]

He also was a member of the Academia Argentina de Sociología (1952–1955), and a lecturer with the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic (1961–1971).[2]

Later life and death

De Mahieu remained in Argentina in his later years. Uki Goñi claims that he was photographed with Carlos Menem during the latter's 1989 presidential campaign.[9] De Mahieu headed the Argentine chapter of the Spanish neo-Nazi group, CEDADE, until his death in Buenos Aires, in 1990.

Pre-Columbian contact theories

De Mahieu wrote on pre-Columbian America and esoteric Nazism. He traveled to Paraguay for anthropological studies, and claimed the Guayaki tribes were descendants of the Vikings. He allegedly travelled to Brazil in 1974, where he visited the Sete Cidades park in Piauí and considered it a Viking establishment.[10] His books on the Knights Templar allege they settled in Mexico before Columbus.

His books were translated from French to German by Wilfred von Oven, formerly deputy to the Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.[11]

Economics and politics

Mahieu wrote a book titled The Communal Economy (1964), which was inspired by a social and economic project developed in Mendoza, Argentina. The project ended during the Revolución Libertadora regime, which toppled Juan Perón's government in 1955.[12]

Bibliography

In English

In Spanish

In French

In German

Notes and References

  1. http://www.lanacion.com.ar/202464 La rama nazi de Perón
  2. Nouvelle École n°47, 1995
  3. http://www.lexpress.fr/informations/la-cavale-des-maudits_595549.html La cavale des maudits
  4. http://www.lexpress.fr/info/monde/dossier/argentine/dossier.asp?ida=418659&p=1 Sur la piste des derniers nazis
  5. News: Hudson . Christopher . March 10, 2002 . The truth about ODESSA . The (Brisbane) Sunday Mail.
  6. http://www.iiee.cl/fonck2.htm Instituto de Investigación y Estudios Exobiológicos Delegación Chilena
  7. [Mark Falcoff]
  8. Serge Dumont, Les Brigades noires: l'extrême-droite en France et en Belgique francophone, de 1944 à nos jours, EPO, 1983, pp.35-36
  9. http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-14198-2002-12-15.html La Odessa que creó Perón
  10. http://www.ufpi.br/sete_cidades.php Sete Cidades
  11. Book: Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas . Black Sun . 2022-03-18 . New York University Press . 978-0-8147-3326-4 . 184. 10.18574/nyu/9780814733264.001.0001 . 250653823 .
  12. For a description of his influence in those revolutionary groups who took to guns in the last 60's and early 70's in Argentina, see Roberto Bardini, Tacuara, la Pólvora y la Sangre ("Tacuara, Gunpowder and Blood"), dedicated mainly to the far-right Tacuara Nationalist Movement.

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