Marcel Niedergang

Marcel Niedergang (1922-2001) was a French journalist and non-fiction author.

Early life Marcel Niedergang was born on September 14, 1922, in Évian-les-Bains, France. He was raised as a Protestant. He joined Le Monde in 1952. He also suggested that Fidel Castro's leadership style was far more comparable to Josip Broz Tito in Yugoslavia or Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt than Nikita Khrushchev in the Soviet Union.

In the winter of 1999, Niedergang joined the Collectif Liberté pour l'Afghanistan, an organization lobbying for the West to stop tolerating the Talibans and "Osama bin Laden, the millionaire Saudi financier of terror".

Personal life Niedergang was married. He spent much of his retirement in Peru.

Death Niedergang on December 28, 2001, in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris, France.