Georges Albertini

Georges Albertini , (1911 - March 30th 1983), Political man , collaborator and militant Anticommunist French.

Pre-war period

He is professor and militant of SFIO before war. Inhabitant of Munich, it opposes on this subject to the future resistant chief Pierre Brossolette. During the Thirties, he collaborates in the review the Nouveaux books since 1937 when one tries to cure the crisis by a bringing together of the Patronat and working Syndicats by increasing the role of the elite technician and by setting up a Politique to support the reports/ratios free economic S German S.

Collaboration

He is the second of Marcel Déat (administrative secretary) and organizer of the RNP (popular national Rassemblement), acquired with the collaboration with the Nazi Germany during the Occupation. He illustrates himself in particular by his zeal of sergeant recruiter against the Résistance. Also by a Anticommunism and a Anti-semitism particularly violent one. Two indissociable hatreds for him, as the title of one of its leading articles with “popular National confirms it” in June 1942: “ Communism, company Jewish ”… It is stopped and tortured with the release. His wife, without political activity, is also stopped and tortured and their infant dies for lack of care.

With its lawsuit, he had explained that he had made only follow the way traced by Philippe Pétain and that he had made only one error of judgment, certainly " infinitely heavy " , by believing that the Germany would gain the war. Although recognized guilty of intelligence with the enemy, it had saved his head, unlike collaborators less eminent than him, with the benefit of mitigating circumstances. It was to pass in prison only four five years of its judgment. In February 1948, a presidential pardon enables him to leave prison.

Anticommunism, and after war

The network of friendships and front interests tied, during and after the war by Georges Albertini enabled him not only to survive, but to exert a long time its influence… It enters to the Banque Worms, like “ to advise ” with the head office. At the same time, it assembles a company of “ political documentation ”, centered on the fight against the Communisme. Quickly, the activity of the center diversifies, in particular with the exit of the review “ East-West ”. It extends to the South America (creation in 1961 of the review “ Este there Oeste ”), to the Italy (with “ Documenti sul communismo ”) and several countries of Africa.

He reconverts with propaganda Anticommuniste during the Cold war and becomes an influential adviser under IVe and Ve République. In its crusade against Communism, it was been used by the mixture of fear and blindness which reigned during the cold war, fear of the Soviet threat, on a side, blindness of those which refused to see the mistakes of the Stalinist system, other. With the support, financier in particular, networks of the right-hand side, and thanks to the receptivity which it found near the various sensitivities anticommunists, it managed to weave his fabric. Its police technique of documentation, its propensity to uncover the lower part of the things or to denounce the interior enemy (for example, Le Monde presented, in the Fifties, like an agent of the the Kremlin!) were appropriate for the climate of the time. He becomes also an adviser very listened to of Georges Pompidou then Prime Minister of De Gaulle and, when Pompidou is elected president of the republic, Albertini still preserves a great influence on its two advisers, Marie-France Garaud and Pierre July. He also collaborates with the latter when they are in the entourage of Jacques Chirac. The political world solicits its councils, until in 1981. The big bosses subsidize its activities. He was also the mentor of the young people Alain Madelin, Gerard Longuet and Alain Robert.

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