Blood and Brittany: Théophile Jeusset and the Crimes of Collaboration
Rennes, 1932. A bomb explodes under a statue. One of the young extremists rounded up afterward is twenty-two-year-old Théophile Jeusset. Investigators find he has been in contact with German agents.
Over the next decade he will move from antisemitic pamphlets and secret Breton nationalist cells to active service in the Bezen Perrot—a collaborationist militia affiliated with the Waffen-SS. When the war ends, a French court sentences him to hard labor for life.
Host Alexander Lawson traces the path of Théophile Jeusset: from radical Breton separatism and early terrorism to full collaboration…
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