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citations dans Bagatelles pour un massacre; Princess Karadja, King Solomon: A Mystic Drama,
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Céline; Marrus and Paxton, Vichy France and the Jews; Paxton, Vichy France; Randa,
Dictionnaire commenté de la collaboration française; Le Réveil du peuple, 15 March 1936; Taguieff
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Action Française
1 BMO, 30 November 1937.
2 Tasmania J.
3 ibid.
4 Taguieff, p. 398.
5 APP GA R4, 14 April 1938.
6 Tasmania J.
7 Neither Danny Puddefoot nor Alistair Rapley believe Elsie could speak French,
but Pat Smalley, a neighbour in Hazel Crescent, is certain of it. Elsie worked
for other members of the upper classes before she came upon the Darquiers:
this may be how she learned it.
8 ‘In order to mark the foundation of the Anti-Jewish Union of France with a
gesture of solidarity and to make more efficient the battle that we are leading
to create a France for the French, we have decided to combine the Bulletin of
the National Club and the Bulletin of the Centre for Information and
Propaganda in a single publication . . . l’Antijuif.’ L’Antijuif, 20 May 1937.
9 Joly, Darquier de Pellepoix, pp. 109‒110 quoting l’Antijuif of 3 June 1937.
10 Brechtken, pp. 50, 69,70.
11 There were various predecessors of l’Antijuif, including the newspaper of
Father E.A. Chabauty in 1881 and that of Jules Guérin, disciple of Drumont,
during the Dreyfus case.
12 Joly, Darquier de Pellepoix, p. 127.
13 Bernard Lecache (1895–1968): First World War veteran, joined the
Communist Party, wrote for l’Humanité but left both. In 1927, horrified by
the pogroms in the Ukraine, founded the Ligue Internationale contre
l’Antisémitisme (LICA) and the newspaper Le Droit de vivre (The Right to Live).
An anti-fascist and lifelong militant, he remained president of LICA (now
LICRA, the added ‘R’ being for ‘Racisme’) until his death.
14 Five Nazi organisations were funding men like Louis Darquier in these years:
i. The German Foreign Office. Louis applied to them by way of Ambassador
Welczek in January/ February 1937. Another approach seems to have been
made later when Louis planned to visit Dr Bohle, Secretary of State at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and head of the AO, the foreign organisation
of the Nazi Party. See extract from a note sent by the Interior Ministry on
9 July 1938 in Goebbels’ note below.