When Susan Suleiman, in her Crises of Memory and the Second World War, discusses such texts as Lucie Aubrac's Ils partiront dans l'ivresse (published in English as Outwitting the Gestapo), André Malraux's Antimémoires (published in English as Anti-Memoirs), and Georges Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance (published in English as W, Or, the Memory of Childhood), she can assume that the learned readers to whom her study is addressed are somewhat familiar with these texts, their authors, and with the political and cultural context to which they refer. She does not need to introduce Malraux, nor to explain that France was occupied during World War II, that part of the country's Jewish population was deported, and that there was a resistance movement. Dealing with the memoirs of the French volunteers who fought for Germany allows no such assumption. Specialists of the Occupation may be acquainted with the names of the writer Saint-Loup, the miliciens Pierre Bassompierre and Léon Gaultier, and the Belgian politician leader Léon Degrelle; they may be aware that La Mazière, after starring in Le Chagrin et la Pitié, wrote two books of reminiscences; and they may recall that Rousso's first study, Pétain à Sigmaringen, includes an imaginary dialog with one of my memoirists, Eric Labat. However, unless they have done the same research as I have, it is unlikely that they recognize such people as Jacques Auvray, Gilbert Gilles, Serge Mit, Christian Malbosse, Henri Philippet, and Pierre Rostaing.