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Abetz/Laval camp, like Déat, though without the latter’s principles. He was
utterly venal, and took money from anyone for anything. He also had much
in common with a man like de Monzie, politically and as a bon viveur; he was,
however, more honest and self-knowing. After the Liberation he fled with
others to Sigmaringen, where with de Brinon and Darnand he was part of a
trio of government in exile. He escaped to Italy, arrested there in 1945, condemned
to death and shot. His daughter Corinne was a well-known actress of the time.
Fernand de Brinon (1885–1947): First World War veteran. Lawyer and journalist.
Rabid anti-Semite and advocate of Hitler: ‘Hitler has always detested the
shedding of blood.’ Some sources say he was the son of a marquis. Others
suggest that like Louis Darquier, he ‘borrowed’ his title of Comte. Served under
Pétain in the trenches. Worked for a Greek millionaire who was an occasional
importer of cocaine. Married the actress Jeanne or Yvonne Ducas, lost her, and
his money on racehorses, then married Lisette Franck, a wealthy Jewish woman;
through her he worked for the Jewish bank Lazard Frères. Friend of Ribbentrop.
First French journalist to interview Hitler (Le Matin and l’Illustration, December
1933). Laval’s secretary in September 1940 before becoming chargé de mission in
Paris, i.e. Vichy ambassador in the Occupied Zone, at the Hôtel Matignon where
Laval spent his time in Paris. To de Brinon’s rooms there came thousands of
French supplicants, which made him one of the most hated of all French collaborators.
From April 1942 he was also in Laval’s Vichy cabinet. Lisette de Brinon
spent most of the war safe in the countryside, which was just as well, as de
Brinon was given to complaints about ‘Yids’ and ‘Youpins’ at his numerous
dinner parties, even in her presence. During the Occupation he formed a trio
of power with Abetz and Laval. Formed Groupe Collaboration, successor to
the pre-war Comité France–Allemagne, and was president of the LVF
committee. In Sigmaringen he headed its government in exile. Arrested in Bavaria
in 1945, tried in 1947, sentenced to death and executed by firing squad.
Pierre Drieu la Rochelle (1893–1945): First World War veteran. Fascist intellectual,
poet, novelist, essayist and editor of La Nouvelle revue française during
the Occupation. Friend of Abetz and for a time a follower of Doriot.
Committed suicide in March 1945.
Monseigneur Jean Mayol de Lupé (1873–1955): See Chapter 20, n. 5.
34 This Foreign Office document (TNA: PRO FO 371/31941‒Z3005), written by
the Foreign Research Press Office at Balliol College in 1942, is not entirely trustworthy,
as it couples Baroness von Einem with Elizabeth Büttner as one of
Abetz’s espionage assistants. If this refers to Elizabeth von Arnim, the author of
Elizabeth and her German Garden, then I find it very unlikely. It could however be
a reference to another member of the German family into which Elizabeth von
Arnim married. As Professor Achim von Arnim, SA Gruppenführer, was president
of Abetz’s German branch of this organisation, this is probably the case.
35 If the money did not come from Abetz, it may still have come from