During World War II, Albert Camus and the “Combat” newspaper he edited, which spoke for the French resistance, were among the hardliners calling for a “purge,” that is, handing those who collaborated with the Nazi occupation the most severe sentences possible. On the other end of the spectrum was Francois Mauriac, a devout Catholic novelist and European conservative, who had sided with the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s.
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