Pierre-Antoine Cousteau

Pierre-Antoine Cousteau (; 18 March 1906 – 17 December 1958) was a French journalist, polemicist, and Axis collaborationist. He was the elder brother of the explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

An avid political journalist, Cousteau initially wrote for left-wing editorials, before gradually moving towards antisemitism and fascism throughout the 1930s, becoming editor of Je suis partout. After the occupation of France, Cousteau became a propagandist for the French State, under which he advocated for collaboration with Nazi Germany and supported the French Holocaust. After being held in prison from 1946 to 1953, Cousteau fell seriously ill and died at age 52 in Paris.

Leftist activism He was born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, and educated in the United States as well as the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Cousteau served in the military before working as a translator and a meteorologist and for New York City's Credit Alliance Corporation.

In August 1944, he moved to Bad Mergentheim, where he helped run a French newspaper and radio station, before ultimately fleeing to Switzerland. Arrested at Innsbruck, he was condemned to death in November 1946, before the sentence was commuted to life with hard labour.

Post-war activity Released under an amnesty in 1953, he became editor of the extreme nationalist journal Rivarol, as well as contributing to Henry Coston's Lectures Françaises, Jeune Nation, Charivari, Dimanche-Matin and others. He was also associated with the minor Union des Intellectuels Indépendants movement. In his post-war work Les lois de l'hospitalité he argued in favor of collaboration: "we [the collaborators] did not commit an error of judgement. There were just too many tanks and too many planes against us".

He fell seriously ill in the late 1950s and had to withdraw from politics, requiring regular blood transfusions to survive.