La Gerbe

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

Founder and editor of the magazine was the writer Alphonse de Châteaubriant. The chief editor had Marc Augier. Gabrielle Storms - Castelot, the mother of André Castelot and lover Châteaubriants, was an executive secretary.

The title of the journal alludes to the view expressed by their position to: France, called to be an agricultural country, new Europe must be integrated into the 'realized by Hitler. Radical anti-communist, anti-republican and anti-Semitic as well as the Front populaire hostile, the magazine was based ideologically on Fascism and National Socialism in particular. France is asked to submit " national Gleichschaltung " and fight for it with extreme force against the individualism of a.

The eugenic and racist magazine put her columnist George Montandon by the "Institut pour la question Juive ," the collaborationist counterpart to the Institute for the Study of the Jewish question are available and explained in its issue dated 7 November 1940: "It is the time had come to say that Apollo and Pallas Athena are the images of the Nordic 's and the Nordic woman, a claim that was impossible at the time of the Jewish conspiracy. "

So, as its founder thought La Gerbe also entered into a combination of Catholicism and racism. They demanded that the Hlg. fair all the bring to bear what she brings closer a racist ceremony (21 November 1940), and wondered: The Joy said Father Janvier in one of his lectures, is the engine of life. Did Hitler because with, Strength through Joy ' said something else?

As far as the literary side was not apolitical, it contained articles by Paul Morand, Marcel Aymé and Jean Giono. André Castelot cared about theater criticism.