Robert Brasillach

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Robert Brasillach (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ bʁazijak] ; 31 March 1909 – 6 February 1945) was a French author and journalist. He was the editor of Je suis partout, a nationalist newspaper which advocated fascist movements and supported Jacques Doriot. After the liberation of France in 1944, he was executed following a trial and Charles de Gaulle's express refusal to grant him a pardon. Brasillach was de facto executed for advocating collaborationism, denunciation and incitement to genocide. The execution remains a subject of some controversy, insofar as some of the execution involved adding to the popular opprobrium against persons selected to be killed by Vichy France and their Nazi Germany allies amid wider "intellectual crimes", rather than military or political actions. Brasillach and Pierre Laval called for the ultimately life-ending show trial of prominent politician Georges Mandel, who had been praised by Winston Churchill for trying to lead Free French Forces.

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