The Revolutionary Who Joined the Enemy: Hubert Lagardelle’s Collaboration Crimes
In 1946, a French court sentenced a 72-year-old former revolutionary to life at hard labour. Not for murder — for helping send hundreds of thousands of his own countrymen into forced labour for Nazi Germany.
Hubert Lagardelle began as a firebrand of French syndicalism. He ended as Vichy Minister of Labour, one of the men who made the Service du Travail Obligatoire a reality.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson examines the ideological betrayal, the machinery of collaboration, and the quiet, bureaucratic crime that cost France so much.
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