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28 “debris of bones” Le Matin , March 22, 1944.

29 Massu said that he knew Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 152.

30 “field of vision” Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 132.

31 “reduced to hypotheses” Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 153.

32 “at the level of the neck” Report, August 31, 1942, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VII.

33 “trace of violence” Ibid.

34 two human hands Police report of Courbevoie, August 22, 1942, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VII.

35 “a man of the lecture hall” Le Petit Parisien , March 22, 1944.

36 “We forensic scientists” Ibid.

37 four thighs alone Report, November 19, 1942, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VII.

38 “a storm cloud of mosquitoes” Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 154.

39 “Is it tomorrow” Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 156.

CHAPTER 12. THE GESTAPO FILE

1 According to one Gestapo report, May 8, 1943, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

2 Jodkum Jodkum or Jodkun is usually called director of IV B-4. He was not. The leader of IV B-4, at this time, was SS First Lieutenant Heinz Röthke, who assumed duties in July 1942 from Theodor Dannecker. Background on Jodkum comes from captured Gestapo records and interviews at CDJC, XCVI Service allemand anti-juif en France, and Service IVB-4, particularly the testimony of Kurt Schendel and Henri Jalby on B.d.s. IV 4 b.

3 Although also nominally See particularly Henri Joseph Jalby testimony at CDJC, “Service Jodkun” XCVI, 58–62, 76 as well as Grégory Auda, Les belles années du “milieu” 1940–1944 and Le grand banditisme dans la machine répressive allemande en France (Paris: Éditions Michalon, 2002), note 1, 109.

4 “contraband of persons” Report, Sipo (SD) KD Paris, IV E 2a15016, May 22, 1943, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

5 Dreyfus was a thirty-five-year Der Kommendeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Paris, Tgb. Nr. V B1—4065/44, June 23, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° II.

6 “I am a Frenchman” AN 334, AP 65, 4434.

7 at Montpellier Report, October 7, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

8 “hotel or a doctor’s office” Gestapo report, May 8, 1943, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

9 The organization under scrutiny Gestapo report, May 21, 1943, and forwarded to the French police, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

10 “The management” Ibid.

11 “remarkably efficient” Gestapo report, May 21, 1943, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

12 “unexpected costs” AN 334, AP 65, 4439–4440.

13 signing two important documents AN 334, AP 65, 4398–9.

14 By this time Guélin had prepared the way for three months of work, according to hairdresser Raoul Fourrier. AN 334, AP 65, 4403.

15 “We climbed a dirty, dark” Gestapo report, May 14, 1943, printed in Jacques Perry and Jane Chabert, L’affaire Petiot (Paris: Gallimard, 1957), 100.

16 counted as numerous Report, Sipo (SD) KD Paris, IV E 2a15016, May 22, 1943, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

17 Once this was accomplished Gestapo report, May 21, 1943, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

18 “the doctor showed it” Gestapo report, May 16, 1943, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

19 “thirty-five to thirty-eight” VM-X report to Gestapo, May 18, 1943, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

20 serial numbers I bid.

21 He ordered his Report, Sipo (SD) KD Paris, IV E 2a15016, May 22, 1943, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

22 They also arrested Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD, Tgb. Nr. V B1—4065/44, June 23, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° II.

23 “a den of murderers” Hans Bernd Gisevius, To the Bitter End: An Insider’s Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler, 1933–1944 , foreword by Allen W. Dulles, translated by Richard and Clara Winston (New York: Da Capo Press, 1998), 50.

24 “with his hand” Ibid.

25 “three days and two nights” Alomée Planel, Docteur Satan ou l’affaire Petiot (Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 1978), 191.

26 “the bath” Jacques Delarue, Trafics et crimes sous l’occupation (Paris: Fayard, 1968), 42.

27 Sometimes prisoners Edward Crankshaw, The Gestapo: Instrument of Tyranny (New York: Da Capo Press, Inc., 1994),128–129, based on the evidence amassed by the French prosecuting counsel at Nuremberg.

28 “running a prisoner” Cooks on the second floor complained of the screams from the interrogation rooms on the fifth. Jacques Delarue, The Gestapo: A History of Horror , translated by Mervyn Savill (New York: Paragon House, 1987), 234–236.

29 “June 1943” … “Vive le fin” Henri Calet, Les Murs de Fresnes (Paris: Editions des Quatre Vents, 1945), 29, 57, 25, 53.

30 “a pitiful sight” René Nézondet, Petiot “le Possédé” (Paris: Express, 1950), 59.

31 According to his confession Nr IV-B Report, Le Chef de la Sû reté et du SD en France, June 11, 1943, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

32 “All I knew” Ibid.

33 “I never saw” Ibid.

34 The file in front of Massu The Gestapo rarely released prisoners, that is, except to a German tribunal, a concentration camp, or at least a French prison. For more, see Jacques Delarue, The Gestapo , 241–242.

35 to “turn” prisoner A tactic described, for instance, from an Abwehr perspective, in Oscar Reile, L’Abwehr: Le contre-espionnage allemand en France , preface by Colonel Rémy (Paris: Éditions France-Empire, 1970), 281–282.

36 in return for 100,000 francs This was confirmed by a man attached to Jodkum in the Gestapo office, Henri Jalby, in an undated report, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° II.

CHAPTER 13. POSTCARDS FROM THE OTHER SIDE

1 On September 27, 1940 Serge Klarsfeld, Le Calendrier de la persécution des juifs de France 1940–1944 (Paris: Fayard, 2001), I, 26–28. “Enterprise juive” comes from paragraph 4 of this law.

2 The following month For more, see Susan Zuccotti, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews (New York: Basic Books, 1993), 56–64, and Michael R. Marrus and Robert O. Paxton, Vichy France and the Jews (New York: Basic Books, Publishers, 1981), 75–114.

3 In early May 1941 Serge Klarsfeld, Vichy-Auschwitz (Paris: Fayard, 1983), 15–18. Klarsfeld also shows the breakdown into Polish, Czech, and former Austrian Jews, and by arrondissement.

4 Three months later Klarsfeld, Vichy-Auschwitz , 25–27.

5 As Gouedo explained Jean Gouedo declaration, March 15, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I. See also his interrogation, March 23, 1944 in carton n° III.

6 On January 2 Renée Guschinow, Audition , March 21, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

7 “I have arrived” … “sell all [her] belongings” Renée Guschinow, Audition , March 21, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III. AN 334, AP 65, 3372–3373.

8 Marcel Petiot had purchased Robert Sens-Olive, Audition , March 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° II, and report March 24, 1944, in carton n° I.