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Before the war, Céline campaigned for an alliance between France and Nazi Germany.

During the occupation of France, he wrote letters to several collaborationist journals, denouncing the Jews.

Even some Nazis thought Céline's antisemitic pronouncements were so extreme that they were counter-productive.

Bernard Payr, the German superintendant of propaganda in France, considered that Céline " started from correct racial notions " but his " savage, filthy slang " and " brutal obscenities " spoiled his " good intentions " with " hysterical wailing ".