Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

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.