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5 “hooded ones” Maurice Pujo coined the term after the Ku Klux Klan. Bertram M. Gordon, Collaborationism in France During the Second World War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980), 58.

6 Perhaps he had New York Times , August 31, 1944.

7 forwarded by attorney Jacques Yonnet, Audition , November 7, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

8 “Dear Mr. Editor” … “Having lost” Résistance , October 18, 1944. Special thanks to Magali Androuin at the archives of the Préfecture de Police for showing me the original letter, which, given its state (ripped to pieces), is held outside the dossier.

9 Colonel Rol Liberation-Soir , November 4, 1944. For more on Colonel Rol’s life in general, see Roger Bourderon, Rol-Tanguy (Paris: Tallandier, 2004).

10 The first priority in the reckoning Megan Koreman, The Expectation of Justice: France, 1944–1946 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999), 92.

11 An estimated ten to twenty thousand women Fabrice Virgili estimates twenty thousand in Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2002), 1.

12 A recent study Jean-Paul Picaper and Ludwig Norz, Enfants Maudits: ils sont 200,000, on les appelait les “enfants de Boches” (Paris: Syrtes, 2004).

13 In all, about 310,000 cases Philippe Burrin, France Under the Germans: Collaboration and Compromise , translated by Janet Lloyd (New York: The New Press, 1996), 459.

14 More recent studies Henry Rousso, “L’épuration en France: une histoire inachevée” Vingtième Siècle no. 33 (January–March, 1992); H. R. Kedward put the number between 10,000 and 12,000 in Occupied France: Collaboration and Resistance 1940–1944 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985), 77, and a few studies, returning full circle, place the figure higher. For more on the debate, see Christopher Lloyd’s first-rate Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France: Representing Treason and Sacrifice (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 39–40.

15 “stock market in a moment” Douglas Porch, The French Secret Services: A History of French Intelligence from the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995), 266.

16 France, he said, was using René Nézondet, Petiot “le Possédé” (Paris: Express, 1950), 117.

17 At 10:45 Captain Simonin, Arrest of Dr. Petiot , APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

18 as he punched his ticket letter to Decaux, Alain Decaux, C’était le xxe siècle: la guerre absolue 1940–1945 (Paris: Perrin, 1998), 293, and asking for the time comes from an interview with one of the officers, in France-Soir , December 3, 1975.

19 “no longer sully the honor” Jean-Marc Varaut, L’abominable Dr. Petiot (Paris: Ballard, 1974), 185.

20 The murder suspect carried Captain Simonin, Report, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V; Commission Rogatoire, November 2, 1944, also in carton n° V.

21 “We believe we have fulfilled” Thomas Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980), 155. See also the Front-National , November 3, 1944, and L’Humanité , November 3, 1944.

22 the DGER The BCRA had become DGSS and then DGER in what Lucien Zimmer called a “ballet of initials” in Un Septennat policier: Dessous et secrets de la police républicaine (Paris: Fayard, 1967), 216.

23 He was later identified Résistance , March 13, 1946. The article was written by Jacques Yonnet, the same journalist who penned the previous “Petiot, Soldat du Reich.” APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

24 “It’s unbelievable” … “To think that I have been alone” Dylma interview in L’Oeuvre , November 3, 1944.

25 He was accused of four specific charges Massu’s Epuration dossier, APP, KB 74.

26 “dining on several occasions” Jean-Marc Berlière with Laurent Chabrun, Policiers français sous l’occupation: d’après les archives de l’épuration (Paris: Perrin, 2009), 141–142.

27 “the end of a rope” Commission Rogatoire , November 2, 1944, the first of thirty-three identified items in his possession, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

28 suicide attempt … “anti-national act” Berlière, Policiers français , 141, 145; Massu’s Epuration dossier, APP, KB 74.

29 “A good colleague” Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 239.

30 “haunted the Palais de Justice” Télé Programme Magazine , February 2–8, 1958, 4th year—N° 119, 7–9, translation by Stephen Trussel, December 2003. For more on Simenon and Maigret, see his excellent website, trussel.com.

31 “I took all my models” Ibid.

CHAPTER 23. INTERROGATIONS

1 “a hero of the Resistance” … later Simonin would say Simonin to Decaux, Alain Decaux, C’était le xxe siècle , 293, 284–288.

2 Petiot denied … He returned to rue Le Sueur Marcel Petiot, Procès-verbal d’interrogatoire , October 31, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

3 Years later Simonin told this to Marcel Jullian, Le Mystère Petiot (Paris: Edition No. 1, 1980), 203.

4 “My conscience does not” Alomée Planel, Docteur Satan ou L’affaire Petiot (Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 1978), 250; Front National , November 3, 1944.

5 “A demon for detail” Time , July 28, 1967. See also Françoise Giroud vous présente le tout-Paris. Préface de Marcel Achard (Paris: Gallimard, 1952), 88–93.

6 Mussolini, who at the height Information on Magda Fontages’s relationship with Mussolini comes from his chaffeur, Ercole Boratto, whose memoir was discovered by Mario J. Cereghino in 2004, in his work with Giorgio Cavalleri and Franco Giannantoni, La Fine: Gli ultimi giorni di Benito Mussolini nei documenti dei servizi segreti americani (1945–1946) (Milan: Garzanti, 2009).

7 Petiot’s sector was reserved Pierre Montagnon, 42, rue de la Santé: une prison politique, 1867–1968 (Paris: Pygmalion/Gérard Watelet, 1996), 259.

8 “I have been” … “A five-ton truck” Marcel Petiot, November 2, 1944, published in Planel, Docteur Satan , 254–258.

9 When a handful Megan Koreman, The Expectation of Justice: France, 1944–1946 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999), 50.

10 “too uncultivated” Jean-François Dominique, L’affaire Petiot: médecin, marron, gestapiste, guillotiné pour au moins vingt-sept assassinats (Paris: Éditions Ramsay, 1980), 179.

11 “in a great disorder” … “I was absolutely bewildered” Jacques Perry and Jane Chabert, L’affaire Petiot (Paris: Gallimard, 1957), 111–112.

12 April 4, 1936 Report, April 6, 1936, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

13 “bash his face in” Ibid.

14 According to this document Reports of April 6 and June 18, 1936, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

15 “If I hadn’t given it” Ibid.

16 “wept convulsively” Dr. Ceillier, Rapport Medico-Legal , July 22, 1936, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° V.

17 “mental debility” … “dangerous to himself and others” Ibid.

18 The physician arrived APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I, folder 43.