The CollaboratorOn February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinctiona prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je Suis Partout, in whose pages he regularly printed wartime denunciations of Jews and resistance activists. Was Brasillach in fact guilty of treason? Was he