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

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.