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27 Rain splashed Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 219–220.

28 a luggage room Ibid.

29 The contents Report, April 6, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

30 311 handkerchiefs Another tally found 366.

31 Massu hoped Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 221–222.

CHAPTER 17. FRUSTRATION

1 “I do not read the newspapers” Albert Neuhausen, Audition , March 31, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

2 In the bedroom Their son Christian Neuhausen admitted to the gifts. April 1, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

3 He had also used Two suitcases, however, were found at Hôtel Alicot. April 1, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

4 “Now that Dr. Petiot” Albert Neuhausen, Nouvelle Audition , March 31, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

5 Neuhausen had other information Ibid.

6 a white shell necklace … Detectives also found Search of rue Le Sueur, April 4, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

7 “During my time with Dr. Petiot” Geneviève Cuny, Procès-Verbal, March 23, 1944; APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° II.

8 “Yes,” she said, “Dr. Petiot often” Ibid.

9 One friend predicted Le Matin , March 16, 1944.

10 suicide Le Petit Parisien , March 16, 1944

11 After living his first five years Gerhardt Petiot, Audition , March 30, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

12 “I went there three different times” Ibid.

13 thirty-three thousand Jews alone Serge Klarsfeld, Vichy-Auschwitz: le rôle de Vichy dans la solution finale de la question juive en France—1942 (Paris: Fayard, 1983), 8.

14 “You would phone” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Paris Under the Occupation,” originally published in La France libre (1945) and reprinted in The Aftermath of War (Situations III) translated by Chris Turner (London: Seagull Books, 2008), 15.

15 The case of APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I, folders 46 and 50.

16 The former husband Charles Bartholomeus, Audition , March 21, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

17 Mayor Hotin would deny Henry Hotin, Audition , April 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

18 “on her own initiative” Pauline Hotin, Audition , April 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

19 Wearing a yellow orange dress Jean Hotin, Audition , April 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

20 an enigmatic letter Report, April 20, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

21 “miscarriage” … “I am very sad” Thomas Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980), 95–96.

22 Jean said that he had first Gendarmerie Nationale Report, May 25, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

23 Denise’s family Report, March 24, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

24 “It was half past” Jean-Marc Varaut, L’abominable Dr. Petiot (Paris: Balland 1974), 242.

CHAPTER 18. NINE MORE

1 Confirmation came from Henri Chamberlin, Audition , November 22, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VII.

2 Max Stocklin Henri Chamberlin, Audition , September 8, 1944, BDIC, Fonds Delarue F° Delta RES 787, 4.

3 “Otto agency” Jacques Delarue, Trafics et crimes sous l’occupation (Paris: Fayard, 1968), 29–31; Grégory Auda, Les belles années du “milieu” 1940–1944: Le grand banditisme dans la machine répressive allemande en France (Paris: Éditions Michalon, 2002), 42–48.

4 rue Tiquetonne He answered to the “bureau Otto,” which had expanded from three buildings, 18, 23, and 24 square du Bois de Boulogne. Henri Amouroux, Les beaux jours des collabos: Juin 1941–Juin 1942 (Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 1978), 514.

5 “you will talk” Philippe Aziz, Tu Trahiras sans vergogne: Histoire de deux “collabos” Bonny et Lafont (Paris: Fayard, 1970), 45.

6 The leader of the Abwehr Oscar Reile, L’Abwehr: Le contre-espionnage allemand en France , preface by colonel Rémy (Paris: Éditions France-Empire, 1970), 76.

7 The Abwehr had found Grégory Auda, Les belles années du “milieu” 1940–1944 (Paris: Éditions Michalon, 2002), 18–23, 48, 53–64.

8 Adrien the Basque Adrien Estébéteguy was one of the first selected. Report by Section Spéciale, August 30, 1944, BDIC, Fonds Delarue F° Delta RES 787, I.

9 naturalized German citizen Henri Chamberlin, Audition , September 8, 1944, BDIC, Fonds Delarue F° Delta RES 787, 4, and Paul Clavié, Audition , September 19, 1944, BDIC, Fonds Delarue F° Delta RES 787, VI.

10 anonymous letter APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I, folder 7.

11 There was nothing Georges Massu, L’enquête Petiot: La plus grande affaire criminelle du siècle (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1959), 196.

12 the commissaire released Le Petit Parisien , March 25, 1944.

13 “Madame W” APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I, folder 7.

14 Seventy-eight percent 110,000 of 140,000 in the Netherlands, compared with 25 percent in France. Christopher Lloyd, Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France: Representing Treason and Sacrifice (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 25.

15 When the Wolff family APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I, folder 7.

16 Hôtel du Danube Research on hotels in folder 18, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

17 “a spy on the Orient Express” Marcel Jullian, Le Mystère Petiot (Paris: Edition No. 1, 1980), 134.

18 “We always need” Eryane Kahan, Audition , September 8, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VI.

19 “a man of vast culture” Thomas Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980), 89.

20 Maurice Wolff concealed AN, 334, AP 65, 3394.

21 “twelve bullets in my carcass” John V. Grombach, The Great Liquidator (New York: Zebra Books, 1980), 188.

22 Gilbert Basch Charles Nodier, Audition , April 25, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

23 Chaïm Schonker Hoofdbureau van politie te Amsterdam, June 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

24 She had declined Ilse Gang, Audition , APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

CHAPTER 19. THE LIST

1 “doctoress Iriane” Anonymous letter, March 26, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

2 masseuse AN, 334 AP 65, 4354–4355.

3 close friend Louise Nicholas, Report, April 26, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

4 Welsing had little to say Herbert Welsing, Audition , April 26, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

5 It was about March 20 Fernande Goux, Audition , in Report, April 26, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

6 On April 12 List, April 12, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.