Karel Dillen
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Karel Dillen (born 16 October 1925, Antwerp) is a Belgian politician and a Flemish nationalist. In 1977 he established the Vlaams Nationale Partij, which became Vlaams Blok at the elections of 1978. He was president of the Vlaams Blok (later renamed Vlaams Belang) until Frank Vanhecke was elected president in 1996. Karel Dillen war a Member of the European Parliament between 1994 and 2004.
Karel Dillen has a history of associating with far-right figures. Though he was not an active Nazi collaborator himself, he did describe himself as a "passive" collaborator. He also translated in 1951 the pamphlet "Nuremberg ou la terre promise" (Nuremberg or the promised land), a Holocaust denial book by Maurice Bardèche. Afterwards, Dillen maintained regular contact with the author. According to anti-fascist sources, the book states that the Nazi concentration camps were built with the help of Hollywood after World War II.
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