La Gerbe (weekly magazine)

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La Gerbe (French: the sheaf) was a weekly magazine published in Paris from July 1940 to August 1944 of the French collaboration with the Third Reich . Her political-literary orientation was inspired by Candide and Gringoire , twoweekly magazines foundedin the interwar period .

The writer Alphonse de Châteaubriant was the founder and editor of the magazine . Marc Augier was the editor-in-chief . Gabrielle Storms-Castelot, André Castelot's mother and lover of Châteaubriant, was the executive secretary.

The title of the magazine alludes to the position it advocates: France, called an agrarian state , must integrate itself into the new Europe realized by Hitler . Radically anti-communist, anti-republican and anti-Semitic as well as hostile to the Populaire Front , the magazine oriented itself ideologically on fascism and especially on National Socialism . France should submit to a "national conformity" and fight with the utmost strength against individualism .

The race hygiene and racist magazine made its columns available to George Montandon of the Institut pour la question juive , the collaborationist counterpart to the Institute for the Study of the Jewish Question , and stated in its November 7, 1940 edition: “The hour has come to say that Apollon and Pallas Athene are the images of the Nordic man and the Nordic woman, an assertion that was impossible at the time of the Jewish conspiracy . "

Just as its founder thought, La Gerbe also entered into a link between Catholicism and racism. She demanded that the Holy Mass bring to bear everything that brings it closer to a racist ceremony (November 21, 1940), and asked herself: Joy, said Father Janvier in one of his lectures, is the engine of life. Did Hitler say something else with ' Kraft durch Freude '?

As far as the literature side was not apolitical, it contained articles by Paul Morand , Marcel Aymé and Jean Giono . André Castelot took care of the theater criticism.

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