Roger Holeindre was born on 21 March 1929 in
Corrano,
Corse-du-Sud. He grew up in
Vosges and then
Seine-Saint-Denis. In 1989, he wrote ''À tous ceux qui n'ont rien compris'' ("To those who haven't understood a thing") in which he claims to have stolen two
machine guns from the
Germans in August 1944 and that the operation got a friend killed. It has not been proven or denied he joined any
Resistance organisation afterwards, but it can be assumed he never had any connection with the German occupation forces as he did not receive any jail sentence after 1945 (which was a pre-requisite to any investigation for suspicious persons about collaboration in France at that time). After working as a steel worker, he volunteered for the
Indochina War in 1948 and later for the
Algerian War. After being almost fatally wounded in the head, he was demobilized and lived in the city of Tebessa in the East of Algeria. He created there a youth center for education of Muslim locals. He joined the
Organisation armée secrète (OAS), a right-wing
terrorist movement opposed to the 1962
Évian Accords which granted independence to Algeria. Holeindre also founded the FAF (Front pour l'Algérie Française, Front for French Algeria). He met with
Bruno Gollnisch in this period. In 1962, Holeindre was sentenced to 14 years in prison for his involvement with the OAS, albeit he was amnestied after serving roughly 3.5 years. He then worked as a reporter for
Paris-Match, while in the same time counselling young
Occident far-right activists. In January 1968, Holeindre founded the
Front uni de soutien au Sud-Viêt-Nam (United Front in Support of South Vietnam) and supported the US war effort. Occident actively participated in this Front. Holeindre also maintained contacts with the direction of the
WACL (World Anticommunist League), supported by the Taiwanese authorities.
Présent, a newspaper close to the FN, then published the congratulations telegram sent to Holeindre after his election as deputy in 1986 by the President of the WACL and President of the National Assembly of Taiwan, Ku Chen Kang. Holeindre became a member of the political bureau of the National Front, created in 1972 by
Jean-Marie Le Pen, along with
François Brigneau. When the "nationalist revolutionary" tendency of the French far-right founded, in 1972, the ''
Front national pour l'unité française'' (FNUF, National Front for French Unity, original name of the FN), they opened it to their rivals of the "national-conservative" tendency. Thus, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Roger Holeindre and Pierre Durand (a former Poujadist) sieged at the side of the "nationalists" François Brigneau,
Alain Robert,
Pierre Bousquet (former Waffen-SS),
Jean Vallette d'Osia (former resistant who later testified in favor of the
revisionist Pierre Vial), and Rolande Birgy (former resistant). After the first split, at the end of 1973 (leading to the creation of the
PFN),
François Duprat continued to represent the "nationalist" tendency inside the FN. Holeindre served as a member of the
National Assembly for the
Seine Saint Denis region from 1986 to 1988. The split between Mégret and Le Pen started on 16 July 1997 meeting near Strasbourg during which Roger Holeindre started the hostilities, by stating that the FN, in the
French colonial tradition, should return to a more "
paternalist" approach on
immigration issues, and criticized "ideological
racialism" theories, targeting
Nouvelle Droite supporters and former members of the
Club de l'Horloge. Roger Holeindre then joined the
Party of France. He entered the political bureau in 2013 and became honorary president in 2016. ==Decorations==