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

CHAPTER 18. NINE MORE

1 Confirmation came from Henri Chamberlin, Audition, November 22, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VII.

2 Max Stocklin Henri Chamberlin, Audition, September 8, 1944, BDIC, Fonds Delarue F° Delta RES 787, 4.

3 “Otto agency” Jacques Delarue, Trafics et crimes sous l’occupation (Paris: Fayard, 1968), 29–31; Grégory Auda, Les belles années du “milieu” 1940–1944: Le grand banditisme dans la machine répressive allemande en France (Paris: Éditions Michalon, 2002), 42–48.

4 rue Tiquetonne He answered to the “bureau Otto,” which had expanded from three buildings, 18, 23, and 24 square du Bois de Boulogne. Henri Amouroux, Les beaux jours des collabos: Juin 1941–Juin 1942 (Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 1978), 514.

5 “you will talk” Philippe Aziz, Tu Trahiras sans vergogne: Histoire de deux “collabos” Bonny et Lafont (Paris: Fayard, 1970), 45.

6 The leader of the Abwehr Oscar Reile, L’Abwehr: Le contre-espionnage allemand en France, preface by colonel Rémy (Paris: Éditions France-Empire, 1970), 76.

7 The Abwehr had found Grégory Auda, Les belles années du “milieu” 1940–1944 (Paris: Éditions Michalon, 2002), 18–23, 48, 53–64.

8 Adrien the Basque Adrien Estébéteguy was one of the first selected. Report by Section Spéciale, August 30, 1944, BDIC, Fonds Delarue F° Delta RES 787, I.

9 naturalized German citizen Henri Chamberlin, Audition, September 8, 1944, BDIC, Fonds Delarue F° Delta RES 787, 4, and Paul Clavié, Audition, September 19, 1944, BDIC, Fonds Delarue F° Delta RES 787, VI.

10 anonymous letter APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I, folder 7.

11 There was nothing Georges Massu, L’enquête Petiot: La plus grande affaire criminelle du siècle (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1959), 196.

12 the commissaire released Le Petit Parisien, March 25, 1944.

13 “Madame W” APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I, folder 7.

14 Seventy-eight percent 110,000 of 140,000 in the Netherlands, compared with 25 percent in France. Christopher Lloyd, Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France: Representing Treason and Sacrifice (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 25.

15 When the Wolff family APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I, folder 7.

16 Hôtel du Danube Research on hotels in folder 18, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

17 “a spy on the Orient Express” Marcel Jullian, Le Mystère Petiot (Paris: Edition No. 1, 1980), 134.

18 “We always need” Eryane Kahan, Audition, September 8, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° VI.

19 “a man of vast culture” Thomas Maeder, The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980), 89.

20 Maurice Wolff concealed AN, 334, AP 65, 3394.

21 “twelve bullets in my carcass” John V. Grombach, The Great Liquidator (New York: Zebra Books, 1980), 188.

22 Gilbert Basch Charles Nodier, Audition, April 25, 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

23 Chaïm Schonker Hoofdbureau van politie te Amsterdam, June 1944, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° I.

24 She had declined Ilse Gang, Audition, APP, Série J, affaire Petiot, carton n° III.