January 1, 2000 (21:15) Author: Jérôme Moreau
"The French youth who last lived in darkness, in which there was no ideal, who had lost faith in the destiny of the country, tomorrow will be dazzled by the task that awaits: redo Europe ... "(1 ).
To the right, at least not one that despises him, Marc Augier said Saint-Loup is the novelist of the civilization of nations of Europe and threatened carnal ... Two issues that have a reference point after Solstice en Laponite published in 1939 , where the author exposes his already fear for the evangelization and colonization of the Saami people by merchants morality. Reflection that goes under the occupation, especially in articles about Basque and Breton Saint-Loup places where the first foundations of "ethnic federalism" as a principle on which wants to organize Europe (2). Incidentally, the protection of threatened peoples not only in his mind the only European territory since he claimed in 1941, in an article on the future of the French: "Our duty is to restore in Africa in historical context race and a great Arab civilization and a great black civilization (3) ".
And it's always for a Europe of ethnic groups that Saint-Loup has followed the faith and went to gammata fight on the Eastern Front in 1942. He was indeed convinced that Germany since 1941 to prepare a peace based on a European ethnic federalism. In this belief there is the further the idea, widespread in environments previously German conservative revolutionaries, that Europe's future lies to the east, Russia in a bar where you can draw new forces: economic, racial, spiritual.
After the defeat is hard to understand how many Saint-Loup was able to play - although it was not the only one - the pan-Germanism Hitler as an attempt at unification of Europe on the basis of ethnic groups that compose it. Otto Strasser who showed the same in the thirties will, the intention of reorganizing Europe on ethno-linguistic basis, will soon enter into conflict with the orthodox followers of Hitler. Perhaps this attitude was due fanatical anticommunism that Saint-Loup had developed as a result of his contact with the militants left in the period between the two world wars (4). The experience of the Russian front, however, marks a radical change in the attitude of Marc Augier, who is more illusions about German intentions. This trend has occurred in some articles about "combattant Européen" that oscillate between loyalty and complete a certain distancing from the ideological positions in Germany. So he wrote to a few months away, "Hitler is not a man (5)" and thus show his rejection of German domination in Europe: "This is not to merge into a kind of European. We do not want to be Germanophile or Russophile. We want to stay ourselves, with our national heritage, while adopting a modern lifestyle. And we want to enrich this style with the French genius who is not a myth (6).
The apparent contradiction of these two resolutions should be included with the gap between an unconditional oath of allegiance and the thought just by Marc Augier. This confusion between the sentimental aspect and the doctrine that could, after 1945, route Saint-Loup of National Socialism as a sectarian time when he regarded the nation state as a political principle historically exceeded. It is not wrong, however, noted that this contradiction is in Saint-Loup for those who after the war they wanted to combine his experience in the Waffen SS with its worldview. Götterdämmerung in the works, Les Volontaires Hérétiques and Les, Saint-Loup, manifested a visceral attachment to his comrades, leaving free rein to his fantasies and understands that there is a fraction federalist opponent would try to assert itself within the Nazi regime.
Saint-Loup has never laid a uniform. Remaking Europe! But why Europe of ethnic groups, of nations carnal? Why in the spirit of Saint-Loup, this is the political form that it has the strength to resist the overpowering ideologies - liberalism, Christianity, Communism - hidden under the guise of universalism and internationalism. Why nation states have ideological boundaries. Because the carnal homeland, land of our fathers, in response to a natural aspiration of identity. "Europe must therefore be reconsidered from the biologically based concept of blood (...) and the imperatives telluric (...). Can not exist as a sum of small countries that eat the flesh that double strength. In fact, the more extends unified area, plus the reality is diluted to racial mixing and the most territory escapes the property of the individual for the benefit of the mass (7). Saint-Loup makes the race the motor of history of a people and hybridization on the greatest threat to civilization. Given the racial homogeneity is an element of stability.
The doctrine of Saint-Loup, therefore, does not manifest itself in the form of aggressive nationalism, but is more akin to a differential ethnic. In other words, only the one who loves and wants to protect its people is capable of love and appreciation of foreign peoples. The affirmation of the right to difference is replaced imperialism Saint-Loup and can stigmatize the universalism as racist ideology. It 's what you see in La Nuit commence au Cap Horn, excellent book with the characters of the fresco epic: the Indians of Tierra del Fuego are the victims of a dangerous design of a pastor full of good intentions but unable to conceive a manner of existence different from his. A people succumb to colonialism Christian because Christianity is unsuited to the environment in which these people evolve. The death of a civilization through the arrival of missionaries, officials and traders. This theme is also one in La peau de l'aurochs (8) published for the first time in 1954 and now reprinted. Even in this book a civilization is in danger of disappearing; dictatorial invasion, the conquest of mechanization which is gradually replacing the traditional rural and local Catholic.
In the works of Saint-Loup home carnal appears at the same time as a political, social and religious. Politics first, because it represents a refuge against imperialism. Social afterwards, as it aims to strengthen the sense of community that is ethnically pure instinct. It is based on what Saint-Loup calls "socialism of the action" that is destined to become the cornerstone of the new Europe and that socialism is defined as a rooted, an attitude of the heart, will, of opposition to the abstract logic of Marxism-Leninism. The country is finally carnal religious alternative that allows us to reconnect to our pagan roots. For a heroic conception of life that the Judeo-Christianity, saving religion, he choked. The home must be conceived in a carnal sense as a return to the human sensory and spiritual sources. "This is for the individual to draw on sources of heroic life and aesthetics, and then to receive the teaching of combat natural and all that implies: a selection of the aristocracy with the struggle for life, new concept of law is established more with the action of the strong and better, Finally, research and application of the concept of true greatness and beauty (9). Ethnic Federalism in Saint-Loup actually brings a new conception of society. A heroic and popular paganism refers to a more acceptable of the human person.
Despite the apparent contradictions, the political route of Saint-Loup obeys a logic perfectly consistent, where the will to assert ideological hunting contractions. It takes shape a world of great physical and moral health, where all peoples have the right to exist as long as rooted in their own cultures. Over time, Saint-Loup has woven a sincere work through which he expressed a free spirit, who has paid for his freedom with the conspiracy of silence which surrounds his name.
Notes
a Marc Augier, "Jeunesse d'Europe, unissez-vous!" Conversation of May 17, 1941 under the auspices of the Groupe Collaboration à la Maison de la Chimie - Paris. 2
Marc Augier, A la recherche des forces françaises, in La Gerbe, 09/04/1941 and 10/02/1941. 3
Marc Augier, La route de l'huile, in La Gerbe, 06/02/1941. 4
should always have the spirit to understand the political route of Saint-Loup, who made his first political experiences in the left "Popular Front". "For Marc Augier was one of the top animators and ideologues of the movement Auberges de jeunesse (youth hostel, ajisme), was chief editor of the magazine Cri des Auberges de Jeunesse (the magazine lay center of the Auberges de Jeunesse), appointed in the cabinet of Léo Lagrange in the Popular Front government in 1936 and near Jean Giono, the ideal reference and his teacher, she entered the experience with peace of Contadour. Throughout this period the post-war, pacifism and a desire to join the European youth that motivates his efforts. CLAJ representative of the World Youth Congress which took place in the United States in 1937, but became aware that the Communist delegates handed to an intense war propaganda contro la Germania el'Italia. Da quella data showed i suoi primi sentimenti Anticomunista. Varies volte, dopo it 1941, Marc Augier resto del consider the controversy it bolscevismo Crociata europea come il logico della sua azione passata prolungamento nell'ambito del movimento hostelling.
5 Marc Augier, Fidelity of the Nibelungs, in The European fighters, 30-9-1943.
6 Marc Augier This century was two years old, in The European fighters, 15-6-1943.
7 Saint-Loup, a Europe of nations carnal?, In Defence of the West, No. 136, marzo 1976.
8 Saint-Loup, Skin of the aurochs, Paris, Editions de l'Homme libre, 2000.
9 Marc Augier, The Skiers la nuit, Paris, Stock, 1944, pp. 16-17.
In Italian edition came out at the Fox and publisher of Sentinel Italy (Via Buonarroti 4-34074 Monfalcone) the following works by Saint-Loup:
Saint-Loup, The European volunteers of the Waffen SS, Fox, 1967 ( curator Adriano Romualdi).
Saint-Loup, The Blood of Israel, Sentinel of Italy, 1975.
Saint-Loup, sailboats ghost of Hitler, Sentinel of Italy, 1978.
Saint-Loup, Volunteers. History of the LVF against Bolshevism, Sentinel of Italy, 1983.
Saint-Loup, Heretics. History of the SS Division "Charlemagne" Sentinel of Italy, 1985.
Saint-Loup, The nostalgia, Sentinel of Italy, 1991.
Italian translation by Harm Wulf.
