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34 Pintard would eventually say Edmond Pintard, Audition , March 20, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III, and another one on March 22, 1944, also in carton n° III.

CHAPTER 15. WAR IN THE SHADOWS

1 “The cause of France” Charles de Gaulle, The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle , translated by Jonathan Griffin and Richard Howard (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc., 1998), 83–84.

2 “Whatever happens” Ibid.

3 Most of de Gaulle’s The figure for the entire movement is in Robert O. Paxton, Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order 1940–1944 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), 44; the role of Bretons in Thomas R. Christofferson with Michael S. Christofferson, France During World War II: From Defeat to Liberation (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006), 136–137.

4 seven thousand patriots Robert O. Paxton, Vichy France , 44.

5 “capable of using” Although exaggerated, Tillion makes a point. See Christopher Lloyd’s analysis, Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France: Representing Treason and Sacrifice (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 34.

6 Liliane Schroeder reported Liliane Schroeder, Journal d’occupation, Paris 1940–1944: Chronique au jour le jour d’une époque oubliée (Paris: François-Xavier de Guibert, 2000), February 13, 1941, 68.

7 On the morning of August 21 Albert Ouzoulias (Colonel André), Les Batillons de la jeunesse: le colonel Fabien et d’autres jeunes dans la résistance, dans les maquis et l’insurrection parisienne (Paris: éditions sociales, 1967), 130–131.

8 “corresponding to the gravity of the case” Oscar Reile, L’Abwehr: Le contre-espionnage allemand en France , preface by Colonel Rémy (Paris: Éditions France-Empire, 1970), 163.

9 “All close male relatives” Ibid., 174–175.

10 “a good occupation” Point number 33 in Jean Texcier’s “Advice to the Occupied” for Bastille Day 1940, Milton Dank, The French Against the French: Collaboration and Resistance (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1974), 66.

11 “Total war has been” Combat , Underground No. 55, March 1944, printed in Camus at Combat: Writing 1944–1947 , edited and annotated by Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 3.

12 He missed his favorite Olivier Todd, Albert Camus: A Life , translated by Benjamin Ivry (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), 36.

13 For a time Ibid., 161–162; previous experience, Herbert R. Lottmann, Albert Camus: A Biography (Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1979), 235.

14 The German-controlled press John Gerassi, Talking with Sartre: Conversations and Debates (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 108–109.

15 “total dependence” John Gerassi, Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century Vol I: Protestant or Protester? (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), 184.

16 “spiritual leader” Annie Cohen-Solal, Sartre: A Life , translated by Anna Cancogni (New York, Pantheon Books, 1987), 268.

17 “golden age” Ibid., 214.

18 handsome young SS men Fabienne Jamet, with René Havard and Albert Kantof One Two Two: [122 rue de Provence] (Paris: O. Orban, 1975), translated by Derek Coltman as Palace of Sweet Sin (London: W.H. Allen, 1977), 92.

19 “horrible creatures” … “threw their money” Ibid., 117–119.

CHAPTER 16. THE ATTIC

1 “the most passionate” Georges Massu, L’enquête Petiot: La plus grande affaire criminelle du siècle (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1959), 232–234.

2 “Adrien the Basque” Philippe Aziz, Tu Trahiras sans vergogne: Histoire de deux ‘collabos’ Bonny et Lafont (Paris: Fayard, 1970), 44; APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I; AN, 334, AP 65, 4317–4318.

3 A forty-five-year-old Grégory Auda, Les belles années de “milieu,” 1940–1944 (Paris: Editions Michalon, 2002), 63, and AN, 334 AP 65, 4317–4318.

4 Devisenschützkommando Jacques Delarue, Trafics et crimes sous l’occupation (Paris: Fayard, 1968), 40.

5 some thirty-eight thousand apartments Jean-Marc Dreyfus, “Almost-Camps” in Paris: The Difficult Description of Three Annexes of Drancy—Austerlitz, Lévitan, and Bassano, July 1943 to August 1944,” in Jonathan Petropoulos and John K. Roth, eds., Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath (New York: Berghahn Books, 2005), 225.

6 Approximately one thousand cases Detailed description from a victim of one such case in October 1943 is in BDIC, Fonds Delarue F Delta RES 787 6.

7 with a scar two inches long Report, March 27, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

8 “Gine Volna” Report, April 15, 1944; APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

9 “La Chinoise” Marseille Police, March 28, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

10 100-franc note Fourrier acknowledged that this was a sign. Nouvelle Audition , March 19, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III, and discovery at rue Caumartin, Perquisition , March 15, 1944, also in n° III. See also Report, May 6, 1944, in same carton and later media attention, such as Le Petit Parisien , March 23, 1944.

11 An inspector observing … “to simmer” Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 179–180.

12 “1000 to 2000 bottles of cognac” René Nézondet, Audition , March 17, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

13 “white as a sheet” … distance-operated syringe René Nézondet, Audition , March 22, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III; this also appears in René Nézondet, Petiot “le Possédé” (Paris: Express, 1950), 70–75.

14 “Why did you not inform” … “horrible truth” Ibid.

15 Commissaire Massu asked Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 185.

16 “fainted, or almost fainted” Nézondet, Petiot “le Possédé,” 80. Aimée Lesage did not believe the faints were genuine interrogation, March 25, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

17 an old truck Augusta Debarre, Audition , March 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

18 the vehicle was gray Andrée Marçais, Audition , March 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

19 “With my daughter” Yvonne Staeffen, Audition , March 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

20 TRANSPORTS AVENUE DAUMESNIL Angèle Lalanne, Audition , March 18, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

21 One of them Report, undated, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

22 Lion verified Maurice Lion, Audition , March 31, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.

23 A quick visit Brigade Criminelle Report, September 10, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VI.

24 His wife, Simone-Andrée Report, April 1, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° II.

25 Half of the village Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 214–215.

26 “the most tragic cargo” Massu, L’enquête Petiot , 219.