54. Joseph Antignac, Louis' chief of staff in the Commissariat, the real power behind the throne during and after Louis' tenure.
55. Monseigneur Mayol de Lupé, chaplain of the LVF, who liked to end Mass with the cry “Heil Hitler!” At an LVF demonstration at the Paris sports stadium, the Vélodrome d'Hiver, April 1944.
56. René Bousquet, Vichy's Secretary-General for the Police, the zealous and efficient civil servant who organised the Jewish deportations to Auschwitz. With him, outside the Hôtel du Parc in Vichy, are the SS General in France Karl-Albrecht Oberg, SS chief Helmut Knochen and his deputy, Herbert-Martin Hagen.
57. François Mitterrand, President of France 1981–95, connected through his family and his own activities to extremists and men of Vichy, and protector of many after the Liberation, when he himself worked for L'Oréal. Friend and defender of René Bousquet, here seen dining with him in 1974.
58. The Schloss Collection, one of the most important private art collections in France, shown here before the war in the Long Gallery of the Adolphe Schloss residence, 38, Avenue Henri-Martin, Paris. Hidden at the Occupation, Louis masterminded its discovery, sale and disbursement to Hitler and an assortment of other German and French raptors.
59. René Bousquet ensured that his French police force worked closely with their German counterparts to collect and transport Jews to the death camps. Here Nazi and French services oversee Jewish arrests.
60. Jewish men, women and children in Drancy concentration camp in Paris, 3 December 1942, a photograph taken by a German, Wagner, who worked in the Propaganda office in Paris.
61. Jewish women and children at Drancy on the same day; here you can see more clearly the yellow star that Louis ensured they wear.
62. The Nazis enabled Louis and Myrtle, on the far right of this picture, to wine and dine as they liked to do. Louis, paid by both Vichy and the Nazis, gave and attended sumptuous celebrations during his tenure as Commissioner for Jewish Affairs.
63. Louis launches yet another of his anti-Semitic ventures: this time it is his Institute of Anthropo-Sociology in Paris, December 1942. A thinner Myrtle stands looking dazed.
64. Great Tew, Oxfordshire, showing the Falkland Arms pub, where Anne Darquier lived during the war and to which she often returned after it.
65. The wedding of May Brice to Gilbert Rapley, September 1948, with Anne as bridesmaid. She is eighteen. Maud Lightfoot Haynes (Aunty Maud) is on the far left. Next to Anne is the rest of the Lightfoot family, Arthur Haynes, Annie (Lightfoot) Lewis (mother of May), unknown, Newton and Elsie Lightfoot.
66. Elsie Lightfoot in 1961.
67. Anne aged twelve.
68. Louis in Madrid, walking down the Gran Via, sometime in the 1960s, when his worst years as an exile were over and he was working for many of Franco's government departments as a translator.
69. Louis Darquier photographed by Juana Biarnés, the photographer who accompanied Philippe Ganier-Raymond to interview Louis for l'Express in 1978. Louis was not dying, but liked to keep to his bed or wicker chair.
70. 59 Weymouth Street, London W1, where Anne died, in flat number 38, on 7 September 1970, four days after her fortieth birthday.
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Bad faith : a forgotten history of family, fatherland and Vichy France / Carmen Callil.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Darquier de Pellepoix, Louis, 1897–1980. 2. Public officers—France—Vichy—Biography.
3. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)—France. 4. Antisemitism—France.
5. Jews—Persecutions—France. 6. France—History—German occupation, 1940–1945.
7. Vichy (France)—Biography. I. Title.
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