The Pen That Served the Enemy: Claude Jeantet’s Crimes in Occupied France
Paris, 1946. The war is over, but a French courtroom delivers a different kind of justice. Claude Jeantet—journalist, propagandist, and high-ranking collaborator—is sentenced to hard labor for life.
He never fired a gun. Instead, he used newspapers, influence, and carefully chosen words to support the Nazi occupation and help normalize one of history’s darkest chapters in France. From the far-right underground of the 1930s to the propaganda machine of Vichy and a desperate flight to Germany in 1944, this is the story of a man whose crimes were committed with a printing press.
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