Whilst studying
Indology at
Leiden University, de Rochemont became associated with the rightist professor
Gerardus Johannes Petrus Josephus Bolland (1854–1922). After leaving the university in 1924, he set up the country's first fascist movement, the
Verbond van Actualisten, with
Alfred Haighton. This group had stood in the
1925 general election but won only 0.08% of the vote. Alongside this, de Rochemont worked as a journalist for
De Vaderlander and as a
strike breaker. In 1927, he began editing
De Bezem (
The Broom), a fascist journal aimed at the working classes and continued to publish under this name after 1930, when he split from Haighton. Having split from Haighton, de Rochemont became associated with
Joris Van Severen of
Belgium, although most of his time was given over to his work as a civil servant and then as an antiquarian bookseller. He joined both the
National Front and the
National Socialist Dutch Workers Party in 1940, having become fully convinced of
Nazism, even to the point of accepting the incorporation of the Netherlands into the
Third Reich. After spells in prison for
homosexuality and attempting to assassinate
Anton Mussert, de Rochemont volunteered for the Dutch legion of the
Waffen-SS and was killed on active duty near Grisi in the
Soviet Union. ==References==