History of the Betrayals from 1930 to 1940 by French writers, journalists, and politicians in Paris who served the Italian and German services. The fifth column, both a myth maintained by Goebbels and Ciano. The Italian embassy where elected officials, intellectuals, and officers came ‘to the soup’ to betray by delivering state secrets for money.
The far-right groups take Mussolini and fascism as an example. Thus, the country is betrayed down to the general staff. Max Gallo presents the betrayals, backed with documents and testimonies. A very valuable book to understand those ten years when democracies were fooled by Hitler and Mussolini.
It is not just France that is rotted; England too is affected by betrayal.
The fifth column acted ten years before the war. The opinion manipulated by pacifists was demoralized. That was the intended goal, to demotivate the French. A strategy cleverly developed by Hitler and Mussolini with the complicity of men like Laval.
The fifth column shows us the naive compromise of some and the willingness to betray of men who denied their homeland for money. An essential historical work to read.
