| “ | I wanted a German victory because it represented the last chance of the white man, while the democracies represented the end of the white man. | „ |
| ~ Cousteau justifying his collaboration. |
Pierre-Antoine Cousteau (18th March 1908-17th December 1958) was a French Far-Right politician and collaborator with the Nazi Party.
Although initially a left-wing pacifist who, while very much on the political Left, was opposed to Stalinism, he was later persuaded to turn to fascism and Anti-Semitism in 1932 by fascists who he worked in close proximity with as editor of the magazine Je suis partout. In 1936, he travelled to Nazi Germany, and later travelled to Spain under Francisco Franco the following year. Cousteau later attended one of Adolf Hitler's Nuremberg Rallies, which left him with the impression that Nazism was impressive but flawed.
In Nazi Occupied France during World War II, Cousteau became political director of Je suis partout, writing an article defending the internment of Jews by the Nazis. He also produced various other works of Nazi propaganda, such as the infamous L'Amérique juive, in which he claimed that the USA was controlled by Jews bent on conquering the world.
When the war ended, Cousteau fled to Switzerland, where he was arrested in 1946. Found guilty of treason, he was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life with hard labour. He was amnestied in 1953, and continued to prop up his far-right ideology, despite the pleas of his brother, famed explorer Jacques Cousteau. He died after falling seriously ill in 1958.