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1922–2006 France
Christian Clodomir Martial Lamazière (22 August 1922 – 15 February 2006), better known as Christian de La Mazière, was a journalist and member of the Charlemagne Division of the Waffen-SS. He enlisted in the Charlemagne Division shortly before the Liberation of Paris in August 1944, fighting Soviet troops in Pomerania from February to March 1945 before his capture.
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Prisons, like churches, always escape the bombings.
The Captive Dreamer (1972)
Now I can smile at this fervor. But I do not repudiate it. It is, above all it was, a part of my truth.
The Captive Dreamer (1972)
I thought I had dismissed my past, but one morning it caught up with me.
The Captive Dreamer (1972)
I decided to take a risk, not out of pride, but simply because it was only by a certain frankness that I could keep my self-respect.
The Captive Dreamer (1972)
It is precisely when the house is on fire, as I said to myself, and there is a good excuse to flee, that one should defend it all the more energetically. I suppose I acted less because of an ideology than to be true to myself.
The Captive Dreamer (1972)
I shall never be so embittered as to discourage the faith of those who are twenty years of age. I believe, though, I have earned the right to urge prudence, not as regards the act of commitment itself, but in the choice that leads to it.
The Captive Dreamer (1972)
In a broader way, I discovered those those great, simple truths that had escaped me in the kind of magic circle I had shut myself into: that war is hideous, fanatical beliefs murderous, and death the supreme evil.
The Captive Dreamer (1972)