Posted on 02/22/2023 10:05:12 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
Collaborationist French journalist Jean Luchaire was shot on this date in 1946.
Fortuitously just too young for the trenches of the Great War, Luchaire (English Wikipedia entry | French) was the son of playwright Julien Luchaire, and he — the son — emerged in the interwar years as an important pacifist and advocate for French-German rapprochement.
The 1939-1940 war between those countries obviously dunked this philosophy into the crucible, and not long after the Wehrmacht marched into Paris on June 14, 1940, Luchaire emerged as a friend of the Vichy government.
His Les Nouveaux Temps* — founded in November 1940 with the direct backing of Germany’s Vichy ambassador** — became a premiere outlet of Vichy collaboration, and Luchaire directed the national press association to similar ends. After the liberation of Paris, he spent the war’s waning months in refuge with the remains of the Petain government, running a newspaper and radio station for the dead-enders....
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Our media is chock full of people like this.
Actually Luchaire was both for more intelligent and perceptive than say Rachel Madddow. He correctly surmised that another war with Germany regardless of outcome would only be a disaster for France. He was right.
So he was executed for words.
“During the occupation, however, it was claimed that Luchaire was disseminating Nazi propaganda, fulminating against ...America...”
Hmm. So disseminating propaganda for a belligerent foreign power AND fulminating against America is a reason to execute someone?
Pass the popcorn, please!
He was executed as a collaborator with the Nazi’s. He’s lucky that they only shot him.
“Words” are one way to provide aid and comfort to the enemy during time of war.
I have no problem with a long prison sentence, but the death penalty seems a bit harsh.
“ but the death penalty seems a bit harsh.”
The Vichy government collaborated in the mass murder of thousands of French Jews. Shooting was too good for him.
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Why not give him the same treatment we gave Tokyo Rose?
“Why not give him the same treatment we gave Tokyo Rose?”
She got off easy because she was a woman. We should have hung her, too.
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George Soros.
Lord Haw Haw, Brit in Germany sending propaganda towards the UK during WW2 was hanged.
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