Volume 39, Number 12 · June 25, 1992
French Collaborators: The New Debate
By Richard Bernstein
In December 1942, the Pétainist journal France: Revue de l'Etat Nouveau published an article by François Mitterrand, who was then twenty-six years old. He had escaped from a German prison camp and was working for the Vichy regime in the office that helped other returned prisoners of war adjust to life in occupied France. The article was entitled 'Pilgrimage to Thuringia,' and it recounted a trip Mitterrand had made some two and a half years before in a 'miserable convoy' of French soldiers who, having been captured during the Nazi attack on France, were being transported to Germany.
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