Editor’s Note: March 31st marks the 117th birthday of Robert Brasillach, the French journalist, novelist, film historian, and man of the Right who was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad for “intellectual crimes” he was alleged to have committed as a German collaborator during the Second World War. The translation below is offered as a commemoration, and links to other resources regarding Brasillach’s life and work are at the end.
Robert Brasillach & Notre avant-guerre:
The Pre-Phony War (Part II)
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In our last episode of his memoir Notre avant-guerre, Robert Brasillach told us what it was like in September 1938, when he was suddenly called up for mobilization over the Sudetenland crisis, and found himself, like thousands of others, lost in the haste and confusion. (more…)












