Abstract
This paper deals with the peregrinations of three young antifascist intellectuals born around 1910 in Germany and Austria who sought refuge in France and opted in 1938 and 1939 for the Foreign Legion so as to fight against the Nazi regime. In 1941, in order to save them from forced repatriation by the German armistice commission, they were sent to Indochina where they founded a communist cell in the Legion and made contact with the anticolonialist resistance, the Viet Minh. Having survived Japanese imprisonment, they rallied the Viet Minh in 1945 as collaborators of Pham Van Dong, Truong Chinh and Vo Nguyen Giap, rapidly climbing the career ladder in the army and propaganda division of the Viet Minh. Their privileged positions were threatened at the time of the arrival of Chinese advisers in 1950-51 and the concomitant change of the nationalist movement into an openly communist one. Subsequently they returned to Europe ; those who settled in the GDR got into serious political difficulties and fled finally into the FRG.
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