He visited the site of the Katyn massacre , toured the Eastern Front , visited French volunteers and wrote , on his return to France , that he had gone from embracing a collaboration due to reason and rationality to being a collaborator for reasons of the heart ( " '' De collaborationiste de raison , je suis devenu collaborationiste de coeur . '' " ) He called for the death of left-wing politicians and in the summer of 1944 signed the call for the summary execution of all members of the French Resistance . He considered himself a " moderate " anti-Semite and was replaced as editor of '' Je suis partout '' in 1943 by the even more extreme Pierre-Antoine Cousteau . He was a member of the Groupe Collaboration , an initiative that encouraged close cultural ties between France and Germany . He went on to work for various journals , including '' Révolution nationale '' and '' le Petit Parisien '' . After the liberation of Paris Brasillach hid in an attic , joking in his diary : " Jews have been living in cupboards for four years , why not imitate them ? " He gave himself up on September 14 when he heard that his mother had been arrested . He spent the next five months in prison and continued his literary endeavours while incarcerated
Katyn massacre
Katyn massacre
Robert Brasillach