Career
He quit the Frontpartij in 1933 to join Verdinaso and soon became known for his pro-Nazi Germany stance in journals such as De Schelde, Volk en Staat and Strijd. His membership came to an end the following year when he argued with Joris van Severen and so left the group to join the Flemish National Union. Serving as an arrondissement leader for the group from 1935 to 1940, he also returned to parliament as a VNV representative from 1939 to 1944.
Having left his official engagements with VNV in October 1940 to concentrate on this assignment he also edited the new movement"s journal Steamship-Manitoba
In the later years of the war Hermans went to Germany to broadcast propaganda over the radio in Bremen. Hermans was sentenced to death in absentia after the Second World War but he was not arrested until his capture in Germany in November 1946.
He was returned to Belgium where his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he was freed in 1955. He largely remained aloof from political involvement following his release, apart from a spell in the Vlaamse Militanten Orde during the 1970s.