Pierre Daye (24 June 1892,Schaerbeek, Belgium – 24 February 1960,Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Belgian journalist andNazi collaborator. As supporter of theRexist Party, Daye exiled himself toJuan Peron's Argentina afterWorld War II.
InWorld War I Daye served in theBelgian Army on theYser Front and inEast Africa. In 1918 he published a book about his experiences in theBattle of Tabora.
Pierre Daye was in charge of foreign politics in theNouveau Journal, a newspaper supporting theNational Socialist thesis created in October 1940 byPaul Colin and under the direction ofRobert Poulet.[1]
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 theSlovak group Mundus, which was responsible to the Reich Foreign Affairs Minister headed byJoachim von Ribbentrop.[2])
Daye was a correspondent ofJe suis partout, the ultra-collaborationist French language review headed byRobert Brasillach. He was sentenced to death as a collaborator on 18 December 1946, by the Brussels War Council.[3]
After the war, he fled to Argentina with the help ofCharles Lescat, who also worked atJe suis partout.[3] There, he took part in the meeting organized byJuan Perón in theCasa Rosada during which a network (colloquially calledratlines) was created, to organize the escape of war criminals and collaborationists.[4] Along with countrymanRené Lagrou and others such asJacques de Mahieu, Daye became central to the Nazi escape routes.[5]
In Argentina, Daye resumed his writing activities, becoming the editor of an officialPeronist review.[6] He returned to Europe where he wrote his memoirs, and died in 1960 inArgentina.[3]
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