In the wake of the attack on the Capitol, I searched for analogies. I thought about the French far right in 1934, and I thought about France in 1945, when the newly liberated country tried to purge itself of its Nazi collaborators. Between the two events was one figure who can illuminate our present moment: the French fascist writer Robert Brasillach (1909-1945).
Brasillach, a newspaperman and writer of fiction and essays, wrote lovingly about Nazi rallies; he denounced and ridiculed Jews who were in danger; and he encouraged the sentimental support of National Socialism. In occupied Paris, he hobnobbed with the Nazi elite.
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