Abstract: Our study is a reflection on the complete opposition between Camus for whom, in the autumn of 1944, the social body has to be radically purged of its most "toxic" elements (primarily French militiamen and collaborators who have committed blood crimes or ordered them), and his friend, Father Bruckberger, who seeks to save the lives of some high-ranking militiamen who, according to him, were misguided in their loyalty to Marshal Pétain.
