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From Football Captain to Nazi Collaborator: The Fall of Alexandre Villaplane
REAL CLEAR HISTORY ^

Posted on 12/31/2024 8:50:53 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET

Here was a man once captaining France at the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930. He became a symbol of betrayal, infamy, and unthinkable cruelty as a Nazi collaborator. How does such a transformation occur? What compels someone to exchange glory for infamy? This is the story of a man who squandered greatness for greed and moral decay.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: soccer; soccernazi
Interesting story. Makes you think twice about looking up to fallible human beings. Think Pete Rose, Aaron Hernandez, Benedict Arnold. Then there's OJ. Can't these people just stay home and count their money? How hard is it to stay out of trouble?

Gotta admit there's siren call out there for those with money but how much fun can you have?

1 posted on 12/31/2024 8:50:53 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I worry about people like Obama having that quality but what separates them is the bigger picture, knowing they’re part of an ongoing movement. BJ was more out for himself.

The left is busy painting Trump as one of those just like they did with Nixon. Ferdinand Marcos had that talent as well as a lot of supporters. Vetting people is dependent on who’s doing the judging.

Perhaps the trick is to go to the mat with your own the big guys(Chappaquiddik) and drop the small potatoes like Gaetz-do it quick. Nixon recovered from 1960.


2 posted on 12/31/2024 8:59:07 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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If Alexandre Villaplane doesn’t turn your stomach sufficiently, read up on another French “footballer” named Violette Morris.


3 posted on 12/31/2024 8:59:31 AM PST by niteowl77
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To: DIRTYSECRET

From DNC Senator to NAZI collaborator and supporter... Joe Biden & Company....


4 posted on 12/31/2024 9:18:03 AM PST by Jumper
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Pete Rose who broke a rule and placed bets that his team would win…, thrown in with Aaron Hernandez, a homosexual murderer, and Benedict Arnold a traitor to America?

That’sa bit much


5 posted on 12/31/2024 9:34:28 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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If Alexandre Villaplane doesn’t turn your stomach sufficiently, read up on another French “footballer” named Violette Morris.

Why am I not surprised she was a lesbian?

6 posted on 12/31/2024 9:52:03 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Why are we reading this story and not say, the story of Stalin’s head of NKVD, KGB, a guy by the name of Lavrentiy Beria? How did he move from being an anti-Bolshevik to being a mass murderer supporting the Bolsheviks?


7 posted on 12/31/2024 10:05:34 AM PST by ckilmer
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Football is Soccer and it sucks. Un- American Sport.


8 posted on 12/31/2024 10:08:59 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: DesertRhino; DIRTYSECRET

Exactly!

Way out of line including Pete Rose with traitors!


9 posted on 12/31/2024 10:36:13 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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Come on. You can’t undo what he did. Neither can he. Those who insist on forgiving him would forgive Hitler.


10 posted on 12/31/2024 11:42:59 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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**Violette Morris.**
Ok ya got me-who?

** Lavrentiy Beria? How did he move from being an anti-Bolshevik to being a mass murderer supporting the Bolsheviks?**
Sounds like a rich man’s Liz Cheney. Manchurian republican I guess.


11 posted on 12/31/2024 11:47:10 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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Come on. You can’t undo what he did. Neither can he. Those who insist on forgiving him would forgive Hitler.

I take it you are not a Christian.
12 posted on 12/31/2024 11:50:05 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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