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Authors: Romain Slocombe
Monsieur le Commandant (17 page)
1
Lieutenant.
2
An office of the Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, with offices at 52 Champs-Élysées. The Schrifttumgruppe (‘literary group’) led by Lieutenant Gerhard Heller was in charge of publishing.
3
Jean Giraudoux,
Pleins pouvoirs
, Gallimard, 1939.
4
Philippe Pétain, from a speech delivered in Pau on 20 April 1941.
5
An extract from this letter from Philippe Pétain was reproduced in Marc Ferro,
Pétain
, Fayard, 1987, p. 150.
6
By 1944, the Commission had dealt with 666,594 files. In total, 3.1 per cent of the 485,200 people naturalised between 1927 and August 1940 – some 15,154 – were denaturalised between 1940 and 1944. Of the files examined, 78 per cent involved Jews. Between 1927 and 1940, 23,648 Jews (4.9 per cent of the total number of new citizens) had been naturalised. By late August 1943 (when the Gestapo denounced the agreement struck by René Bousquet whereby French Jews were temporarily exempt from deportation), 30 per cent of Jews, some 7,053 individuals, had been denaturalised.
7
Jacques Chardonne,
Chronique privée de l’an 40
, Stock, 1941.
8
The Viking invader Ganger Hrolf, later known as Robert, first Duke of Normandy.
9
See Georges Montandon in
Le Matin
, 5 August 1941, and
Comment reconnaître le Juif?
, published during the Occupation by Les Nouvelles Éditions Françaises, a subsidiary of Denoël that also published
Les Tribus du cinéma et du théâtre
by Lucien Rebatet.
10
Jewess.
11
The three perpetrators, the Hungarian Martinek and the Romanians Copla
and Cracium, were arrested on 19 October 1942 and shot on 9 March 1943.
12
Renseignements Généraux (RG): political security branch.
13
Parti Populaire Français, a right-wing collaborationist group whose leader was the former communist Jacques Doriot.
14
Documents 1 and 2 were filed by France at the Nuremberg trials.
15
Leaders of the National Socialist Party.
16
Name changed. See ‘Publisher’s Note’.
17
Sic
.
18
A far-right league of the inter-war period.
19
See Jean Galtier-Boissière,
Mon journal depuis la Libération
, La Jeune Parque, 1945.
20
See Jacques Delperrié de Bayac,
Histoire de la Milice 1918–1945
, Fayard, 1969.
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Romain Slocombe is a writer, director, translator, illustrator, cartoonist and photographer. He was born in Paris in 1953.
Jesse Browner is a writer and translator. He lives in New York City.
First published in 2013
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