there you go! you got your answer.
I have read that in a book of letters he has condemned the violence done by the nazis. I'll post it if I can find it. I have read that info on a french Céline blog.
Here is one of them:
April 15, [1948]
My Dear Paulhan,
Bravo, très bravo, for the brave note full of wit and courage.
But the essential misunderstanding remains, or rather the ambiguity knowingly maintained by my enemies, my jackals.
When I attacked the Jews. When I wrote
Bagatelles for a Massacre I didn’t mean to say or recommend that Jews should be massacred.
Fuck, I meant the contrary. I asked of the Jews that they not drive us into a massacre more disastrous than that of 1914-18 through their hysteria.
There’s quite a difference.
With
great crookedness people play with the meaning of my pamphlets. People persist in considering me a killer of Jews. I am a patriotic
wholehearted protector of
Frenchmen and Aryans – and
incidentally, also of the Jews. I didn’t want Auschwitz, Buchenwald. Fuck! Basta! I knew full well that in declaring
war we would be headed directly into those horrible “petiotieries.”3 If war is declared tomorrow we’ll see a hundred times better, or worse! It’s obvious! On the other hand, saying there are no war-mongering, provocateur, hysterical Jews means denying the obvious. I sinned in believing in the pacifism of the Hitlerites –
but that’s the limit of my crime. A glance at Palestine shows us that the Jews are every bit as bellicose as the worst Aryans or the worst Arabs! Fuck!
I thought it was possible to reach an agreement with Hitler, send him to make war in Baikal is what I wrote. But I don’t write Gospels, godammit! I don’t prevent anyone from responding to me! from telling me I’m full of shit! what a mess!
The hatred that pursues me that’s searching for me the most stupidly in the world and what’s more the most cowardly, is hunting me down on all continents. An example is the attached letter from Milton Hindus Jewish professor in Chicago, who has ratted me out to the French embassy in Washington.
The French have to finally get it into their stupid pig sold-out to all the bastards in the world heads that I’m one of the few imbeciles to have lost everything, risked everything, suffered everything so that their filthy degenerate species would be spared preserved and perpetuated.
I don’t do it for them, I do it for Couperin, Gervaise, and Jacquin.4
Affectionately yours,
LF Céline