Collaborator The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach

Name: Collaborator The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
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ISBN: 9780226424156

ISBN-10: 0226424154

ISBN-13: 9780226424156

Edition: 2001

Authors: Alice Kaplan

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A National Book Award Finalist A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction—a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weeklyJe Suis Partout, in whose pages he regularly printed wartime denunciations of Jews and resistance activists. Was Brasillach in fact guilty of treason? Was he condemned for his denunciations of the resistance, or singled out as a suspected homosexual? Was it right that he was executed when others, who were directly…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface



The Making of a Fascist Writer



Brasillach's War



The Liberation of Paris



Jail



Marcel Reboul: The Government Prosecutor



Jacques Isorni: Counsel for the Defense



Missing Persons: Brasillach's Suburban Jury



Court



The Writers' Petition



No Pardon



Reactions



After the Trial



Justice in Hindsight



The Brasillach Myth


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index