Kristian Hamon

Kristian Hamon is a Breton and French historian whose work focuses on collaboration in Brittany during World War II.[1]

Career in journalism

After a brief membership of Jeune Bretagne, which he denounced as right-wing,[2] he joined the Breton Communist Party in 1973. At the end of the 1970s, he joined Canard de Nantes à Brest, worked for Libération in 1981, and then Lyon-Libération. At the end of the 1980s, he joined the daily newspaper the Var-Matin (Toulon). He also worked for a spell in publishing (Dargaud, Le Lombard).

Research into the second world war in Brittany

He later returned to his studies, studying his master's (at L'Ouest-Éclair) on the German Occupation of France, receiving permission to study the department archives of Ille-et-Vilaine and focusing on the activities of the Parti national breton penduring the Second World War.

Publications

References

  1. http://www.letelegramme.fr/local/finistere-sud/quimperle-concarneau/concarneau/histoire-kristian-hamon-decrypte-la-collaboration-24-09-2012-1848841.php
  2. Article paru dans le Peuple breton N°115, daté de mai 1973 et signé K.H.
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