138 Baker. Page 623.
139 Dansette. Page 172–173.
140 Goudeket, Maurice. Close to Colette. Secker and Warburg. 1957. Page 166, & Thurman, Judith. A Life of Colette. Bloomsbury. 1999. Page 466.
141 Dansette. Page 173.
142 Dansette. Pages 173–174.
143 Dansette. Page 174. JG-B. Page 259.
144 Galtier-Boissière. Pages 259–260.
145 Ibid Page 261.
146 Dronne. Pages 211–212.
147 Nordling. Page 126.
148 Ibid.
149 Nordling. Page 127.
150 Ibid.
151 Dansette. Pages 177–178. The arrest of Alexandre Parodi on the afternoon of Sunday 20 August 1944 was one of that day’s key incidents. Adrien Dansette’s account has not been improved upon.
152 Brot. Statement.
153 Report. Prefecture de Police. Quoted by Bourget.
154 Culmann. Statement.
155 Dansette. Page 176–177.
156 Wallraf. Statement.
157 Gus. Statement.
158 Bourget. Page 330.
159 Dansette. Page 178.
160 Dansette. Page 178.
161 Dansette. Pages 178–179.
162 Dansette. Page 179.
163 CollinsLapierre. Page 161.
164 Nordling. Page 129.
165 Nordling. Page 129.
166 Nordling. Page 129.
167 Dansette. Page 180.
168 Dronne. Pages 214–215.
169 Dansette. Page 181.
170 Dansette. Page 181.
171 Dansette. Page 182.
172 Nordling. Page 130.
173 Dronne. Pages 215–216.
174 Nordling. Pages 130–131.
175 Dronne Page 216, & Dansette Page 182.
176 Nordling. Page 131.
177 Dronne. Page 216.
178 Dronne Page 216. Dansette. Pages 182–183. Collins & Lapierre. Pages 162–163.
179 Bourget. Pages 333–334.
180 Bourderon. Page 406.
181 Dronne.LdeP. Page 217.
182 Dronne. Pages 222–223.
183 Dronne. Page 224.
184 JGaltier-Boissière. Pages 262–263.
185 Ibid. Pages 263–264.
186 Baker. Page 623, & Bruce. Page 160.
187 Bruce. Pages 160–161.
188 Bruce. Page 161.
189 Bruce. Page 161, & Baker Pages 624–625.
190 Bourderon. Pages 421–422.
191 Bourderon. Pages 422–423.
192 Bourderon. Page 423.
193 Bouderon. Pages 423–424.
194 Bourderon. Pages 424–425.
195 Bourderon. Pages 428–430, & Paris 1944. Les Enjeux de la Libération. Débats. Albin Michel 1994. Page 79.
196 Bourderon. Page 404.
197 DeGaulle. MdeG. Page 570.
198 Lacouture. Pages 563–564.
Chapter 6
1 Monod, Dr Robert. Les heures décisives de la Libération de Paris. Éditions Gilbert. Paris 1947. Pages 47–48.
2 Monod. Page 48.
3 Bourderon. Pages 430–431.
4 Bourderon. Page 431.
5 Monod. Page 49, & Dronne. Pages 239–240.
6 Bourderon. Pages 407–408.
7 Bourderon. Page 416.
8 Bourderon. Page 409.
9 Rol-Tanguy & Bourderon. Les Cents Documents. Page 238.
10 Ibid. Page 238.
11 Monod. Pages 49–59.
12 Taittinger. Page 226.
13 Taittinger. Pages 226–227.
14 Monod. Pages 59–62.
15 Muller, Professor KJ. Le développement des opérations du groupe d’armées B fin juillet-fin aout 1944. Essay for Paris 1944. Les Enjeux de la Libération. Albin Michel 1994. Page 105, & using RH 19/IX/88. Page 49.
16 Muller, KJ Essay. Pages 105–106, & using RH 19/10/88. Pages 67–72.
17 Muller. Pages 106–107.
18 Edsel, Robert M. Monuments Men. Arrow. 2010. Page 133, & Choltitz article, Pourqoui en 1944 je n’ai pas detruit Paris.
19 Bourget. Page 336.
20 Bourget. Pages 336–337.
21 Galtier-Boissière. Page 265.
22 Brot. Statement.
23 Bourderon. Pages 410–411.
24 Notin. Page 263.
25 Boissieu. Pages 244–245, & Collins Lapierre. Pages 166–167. Extraordinarily Collins and Lapierre give the US liaison officers’ names as Dick Rifkind and Bob Hoye.
26 Boissieu. Page 245.
27 Boissieu. Pages 245–246.
28 Notin. Pages 263–264. Quoting from articles by Guillebon in the Revue Historique de l’Armée.
29 Galtier-Boissière. Pages 265–266.
30 Wallraf. Statement.
31 Bourget. Page 340.
32 Culmann. Statement.
33 Culmann. Statement.
34 Galtier-Boissière. Pages 266–267.
35 Dansette. Pages 188–189.
36 Dansette. Pages 190–191.
37 Dansette. Pages 189–190.
38 Dansette. Page 190, & Collins/Lapierre. Pages 186–187.
39 Dansette. Pages 191–192.
40 Danestte. Page 193. This exchange is described in Dansette but not written as a conversation.
41 Dansette. Pages 193–194.
42 Dansette. Page 194.
43 Dansette. Page 195.
44 Kriegel-Valrimont. Memoirs.
45 Bourderon. Pages 412–414.
46 Girard. Pages 264–265.
47 Notin. Page 265. This extraordinary exchange was reported to Jean Christophe Notin by General Alain de Boissieu shortly before the latter’s death. Boissieu told Notin that Bradley told him this in 1970 and that he had heard it from Eisenhower himself. Notin’s narrative in his biography of Leclerc places the conversation on the evening of 21 August.
48 Girard. Page 265.
49 Bruce. Pages 162–164.
50 Bruce. Pages 164–165.
51 Baker. Pages 625–626.
52 Baker. Pages 626.
53 Baker. Page 627, & Bruce. Pages 165–166.
54 Baker. Page 627, & Bruce. Page 166.
55 Baker. Page 627, & Bruce. Page 166.
56 Taittinger. Pages 228–229.
57 Taittinger. Pages 230–231.
58 Taittinger. Pages 242–243.
59 Lambauer. Page 640. Although this is not mentioned by von Choltitz in his memoirs, it is mentioned in his testimony at Otto Abetz’s trial.
60 Lambauer. Page 640. Barbara Lambauer states that while it is proven that Ribbentrop sent telegrams there is nothing to say they arrived.
61 Lambauer. Page 641.
62 Dansette. Page 203.
63 Nordling. Pages 136–137.
64 Nordling. Page 137.
65 Captain Georges and his two FFIs had an eventful return trip to Paris where only their experience and sang froid saved them from being shot at yet another roadblock.
66 Monod. Pages 77–78, & Dansette. Pages 240–241.
67 Crémieux. Pages 111–112, Monod. Pages 77–78, & Dansette. Pages 240–241.
68 Dansette. Page 202.
69 Choltitz. Pages 238–240.
70 Choltitz. Pages 240–241.
71 Choltitz. Pages. 242–243.
72 Dronne. Pages 225–226.
73 Choltitz. Page 244.
74 Choltitz. Pages 244–245.
75 Collins/Lapierre. Page 203.
76 Dronne. Page 226.
77 Dronne. Page 226.
78 Dansette. Pages 202–203, & Dronne Page 227.
79 Veau. Statement.
80 Bourget. Page 347.
81 Wallraf. Statement.
82 Wallraf. Choltitz. Page 272, & Naville. Page 19.
83 Lacretelle, Charles. Memoirs.
84 Dansette. Page 214.
85 Massiet. Page 165, & Sonneville. Pages 343 and 348.
86 Bourget. Page 345, & Crémieux. Page 111.
87 Bourget. Page 345.
89 Dansette. Page 215.
90 Bourderon. Pages 432–433.
91 Crémieux. Page 81.
92 Dansette. Pages 215–216.
93 Bourget. Pages 350–351.
94 Bourget. Pages 351–352.
95 Dansette. Page 216.
96 Girard. Page 265.
97 Monod. Page 78. Dronne Page 246. Collins/Lapierre. Page 196, & Paris 1944. Les Enjeux de la Libération. Albin Michel. 1994. Pages 80–81.
98 Collins/Lapierre. Page 196.
99 Crémieux. Pages 113–114.
100 Crémieux. Pages 114–115.
101 Eisenhower Papers. See also in Paris 1944. Les Enjeux de la Libération. Page 229.
102 Monod. Page 79.
103 Bruce. Pages 166–167.
104 Bruce. Page 167.
105 Baker. Pages 628–629. Baker says it was Leclerc on 22nd at Rambouillet, but it could only have been Guillebon since Leclerc was waiting for Bradley at Eagletac.
106 Beevor and Cooper. Page 46. AB conversation with Mowinckel during 1992.
107 Beevor and Cooper. Page 47, & Murphy. Page 206.
108 Dansette. Pages 216–217.
109 Dansette. Page 217.
110 Bourderon. Pages 435–436.
111 Bourderon. Page 436.
112 Dronne. LdeP. Page 221.
113 Brot. Statement.
114 Nordling. Page 137.
115 Nordling. Page 138.
116 Nordling. Pages 138–139.
117 Dronne. Page 248.
118 Nordling. Pages 143–144.
119 Dronne. Page 248, & Funk, Professor Arthur. Les services secrets alliés et la libération de Paris renseignement et action. Essay for Paris 44. Les Enjeux de la Libération. Albin Michel 1994. Page 227.
120 Dronne. Pages 249–250.
Chapter 7
1 Maggiar. Page 199.
2 Kaspi. Professor André. Les États Unis et la libération de Paris. Essay for Paris 1944 Les Enjeux de la Libération. Albin Michel, 1994. Pages 44–45, & Kaspi. La Libération de la France. Tempus 2004. Pages 120–122.
3 Bradley. A General’s Life. Simon and Schuster, 1983. Page 309.
4 Monod. Pages 79–80, & Collins/Lapierre. Pages 210–211.
5 Crémieux. Page 115.
6 Boissieu. Page 246. Gribius Page 126. Paris 1944. Page 366. General Jean Compagnon says that Leclerc simply said “Direction Paris,” rather than “Gribius, mouvement immediat sur Paris.” Perhaps he said both, but the second version is caught on film and shows Leclerc’s Jeep pulling up and calling to Gribius.
7 Dansette. Pages 258–259, & Compagnon’s interview in Paris 1944. Pages 366–367. Albin Michel 1994.
8 Boissieu. Page 246.
9 Dronne. LdeP. Page 264, & Boissieu. Pages 246–247.
10 Dronne. LdeP. Page 265.
11 Dronne. LdeP. Page 265.
12 Bergot. Page 108.
13 Girard Page 269, & Massu Page 134.
14 Collins and Lapierre. Page 266.
15 Ibid. There is more about d’Orgeix in Christine Levisse-Touzé’s Paris 1944. Les Enjeux de la Libération. Albin Michel 1994. Page 311.
16 Dronne, Raymond. La Libération de Paris. Presses de la Cité 1970. Page 267.
17 Billotte. Page 12.
18 Blumenson. Essay. Paris 1944. Les Enjeux de la Libération Albin Michel 1994. Page 320.
19 Blumenson. Essay. Paris 1944. EDLL. Page 321.
20 Bergot. Page 109.
21 Dronne. CdeR. Page 321.
22 Bergot. Pages 109.
23 Bradley. Page 309.
24 Billotte. Page 312.
25 Langlade. Pages 193–194.
26 Boissieu. Page 247.
27 Bourget. Page 361.
28 Dr. Victor Veau Statement (Bourget. Page 360.), & Galtier-Boissière. Page 271.
29 Nordling. Pages 139–140.
30 Dansette. Page 220, & Collins/Lapierre. Pages 220–222.
31 Nordling. Pages 139–140.
32 Nordling. Pages 141–142.
33 Muller, KJ. Le dévelloppement des operations du groupe d’armées B fin Juillet-fin Aout 1944. Essay for Paris 1944 Albin Michel 1994. Pages 108–109, & RH 19/IX/88. Page 90. RH 19/IX/9. Page 95.
34 Taittinger. Pages 243–244.
35 Taittinger. Page 244.
36 Taittinger. Page 245.
37 Bourderon. Pages 439–440.
38 Bourget. Pages 352–353. Quoting documents formerly belonging to Georges Maurice.
39 Billotte, Pierre. Le Temps des Armes. Plon 1972. Page 330.
40 Dronne wrote of a meeting between Nordling and von Choltitz during the early afternnon of 23 August which is not refered to in Nordling’s memoir. In respect of Dronne’s sources, René Masson and René Dunan, I have included these details.
41 Dronne. LdeP. Pages 234–235.
42 Dronne. LdeP. Pages 227–229.
43 Dronne. LdeP. Pages 232–234.
44 Dronne. LdeP. Pages 265–266, & Bruce. Page 168. It is possibly taking a liberty to say that Bergamin, Bruce and Hemingway drank together but, given that Dronne refers to Bergamin speaking with “Pasteau” (Mouthard) who was in Bruce and Hemingway’s party, it is hard to see who else the “attractive lieutenant” Bruce refers to could be.
45 Bergot. Page 110.
46 Girard. Page 269, & Bruce. Page 168.
47 Baker, Carlos. Ernest Hemingway. Penguin 1972. Page 629.
48 Bruce. Page 168, & Gribius. Pages 127–128.
49 Bruce. Page 169.
50 Dansette. Page 261.
51 Girard. Page 269.
52 Lacouture, Jean. De Gaulle. The Rebel, 1890–1944. Collins Harvill, 1990. Page 568.
53 Récit de Madeleine Riffaud. Humanités Dimanche. August 1974. (Bourget.)
54 Tollet. Page 265, & Georges Maurice. Documents.
55 Bourget. Pages 356–357.
56 Dansette. Pages 220–221.
57 Dansette. Page 221.
58 Georges Maurice. (Bourget.)
59 Choltitz. Page 275.
60 Wallraf. Statement.
61 Dansette. Page 235.
62 Muller, KJ. Le dévelloppement des operations du groupe d’armées B fin Juiller-fin Aout 1944. Essay for Paris 1944. Albin Michel. 1994. Page 109. Quoting von Choltitz communiqué to Army Group B.
63 Muller. Pages 109–110, & RH 19/IX/9b, RH 19/IX/88, & RH 19/IX/18.
64 De Gaulle. Pages 573–574.
65 Aron. Page 305.
66 Dronne. Pages 267–268.
67 De Gaulle. Page 574.
68 Tauriac. Pages 347–348.
69 Aron Pages 305–306, & De Gaulle. Pages 574–575.
70 Boegner, Philippe. Carnets du Pasteur (Marc) Boegner, 1940–1945. Fayard. 1992. Pages 290–291.
71 Bourget. Pages 363–364.
72 Bourget. Page 364, & Crémieux-Brilhac, Jean-Louis. Ici Londres. L’arme radiophonique et l’insurrection nationale. Essay for Paris 44. Les Enjeux de la Libération. Albin Michel, 1994. Page 162. Dansette. Page 255.
73 De Gaulle. Page 575.
74 De Gaulle. Pages 575–576, & Lacouture. Pages 569–570.
75 Massu. Page 134, & Langlade Page 196.
76 Billotte. Pages 312–313, & Dronne CdeR. Pages 322–323.
77 Langlade. Pages 195–196.
78 Bergot. Page 114.
79 Girard. Page 270, & Dronne. LdeP Page 278.
80 Billotte. Pages 313–314.
81 Billotte. Pages 314–315.
82 Dronne CdeR. Pages 323–324.
83 Dronne. CdeR. Page 324.
84 Dronne. LdeP. Page 276.
85 Girard. Page 270.
86 Billotte. Page 315.
87 Muller, KJ. Le développement des operations du groupe d’armées B fin-Juillet-fin Aout 1944. Essay for Paris 1944. Les Enjeux de la Libération. Albin Michel, 1994. Page 110, & RH 19/IX/88 Page 144.
88 Bourderon. Pages 445–446.
89 Bourderon. Page 446.
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sp; 90 Veau Statement. (Bourget.)
91 Lacretelle. (Bourget.)
92 Galtier-Boissière, Jean. Page 274.
93 Bourderon. Pages 446–448, & Massiet.
94 Bourderon. Pages 448–449.
95 Bourget. Page 366.
96 Bergot. Pages 114–115.
97 Bergot. Page 115.
98 Bergot. Page 115.
99 Bergot. Page 117.
100 Bergot. Page 117, & Massu. Pages 136–137.
101 Bruce. Page 170.
102 Dronne, Raymond. CdeR. Page 326.
103 Bergot. Pages 117–118.
104 Bergot. Page 118.
105 Bergot. Pages 118–120.
106 Bergot. Pages 120–121, & Forget. Pages 200–201.
107 Bergot. Page 121.
108 Bergot. Pages 121–123.
109 Boegner. Page 292.
110 Massiet. Page 96.
111 Massiet, Raymond. La Préparation de l’Insurrection et la bataille de Paris. Payot,1945. Page 184.
112 Massiet. PIBP. Pages 184–186.
113 Massiet. PIBP. Page 187.
114 Nordling. Page 150.
115 Dansette. Pages 235–236.
116 Dansette. Page 236.
117 Dansette. Page 236.
118 Muller, KJ. Le développement des operations du groupe d’armées B fin Juillet-fin Aout 1944. Essay for Paris 1944. Albin Michel, 1994. Pages 111–112, using KTB der OKW 1944–1945. Vol VI. Munich, 1982. Pages 101–117.
119 Bergot. Pages 124–125.
120 Bergot. Page 125.
121 Massu. Pages 137–138.
122 Bergot. Pages 125–126.
123 Notin. Pages 268–269.
124 Bergot. Page 126, & Massu Page 139.
125 Bergot. Page 126.
126 Dronne. CdeR. Pages 324–325.
127 Dronne. CdeR. Page 325.
128 Bergot. Page 130.
129 Bergot. Page 130.
130 Bergot. Page 131.
131 Bergot. Page 131.
132 Bergot. Page 131.
133 Bergot. Page 132.
134 Bergot. Page 132.
135 Suzanne Massu. Pages 146–148.
136 Bergot. Page 133.
137 Dronne CdeR. Pages 326–327.
138 Dronne. CdeR. Page 327 & Bergot. Page 133.
139 Dronne Cde R. Pages 327–328.
140 Dronne. CdeR. Page 328.
141 Dronne. CdeR. Page 328.
142 Martel. Page 283.
143 Billotte. Pages 316–317.
144 Boissieu. Pages 250–251.
145 Boissieu. Pages 251–252.
146 Dronne. LdeP. Page 279.
147 Dronne. LdeP. Pages 279, & Bergot. Page 134.
148 Boissieu. Page 252.
149 Muller, KJ. Le developpement des operations du groupe d’armées B fin Juillet-fin Aout 1944. Essay for Paris 1944. Albin Michel, 1994. Page 114 using RH 19/IX/88. Pages 113–123.
150 Billotte. Page 316.
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