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Robert Paxton, the great historian of Vichy France, saw this document, and
there is a later report from the Renseignements Généraux, dated 31
December 1938, in Darquier’s file. This report mentions a note of 29
December 1937 from the Interior Ministry to the Foreign Ministry. It says:
‘Darquier de Pellepoix is in regular contact with the Internationale
Antisémite . . . The latter receives orders from Mr Julien Strasser [sic: police
misspelling for Julius Streicher], the leading anti-Semitic theoretician of the
Third Reich, and is supported by Germans and Italians.’ APP GA D9, 31
December 1938. Date of contact: 1937.
The organisation the police called the Internationale Antisémite de
Genève could be the Alliance Anti-Israélite Universelle (World Anti-Israelite
Alliance), founded in August 1886 in Bucharest. Jacques de Biez, failed
French playwright and disciple of Drumont, helped found it, and its inspir -
ation came from Biez, Drumont and Paul de Lagarde, the nineteenth-century
German equivalent to Drumont who proposed such ideas as ‘Blood and
Soil’, the ‘Master Race’ and ‘German living space in the East’. Hitler used
all of these ideas. I have been unable to find out anything about Otto
Grutzner. The Alliance spread all over Europe in the Twenties and Thirties
and became a counter-movement to the Communist International.
Another extract from a note sent by the Interior Ministry on 9 July 1938
mentions: ‘It is to be noted that Darquier de Pellepoix will soon visit
Nuremberg where he is to meet Messrs Alfred Rosenberg and Fleischhauer.
We believe he will then go to Berlin for a meeting with leaders of the Nazi
party, particularly Dr Bohle, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, and head of the AO, the Foreign organisation of the Nazi Party.’
However, there is no proof that Louis Darquier made this visit.
iv. Himmler and his SS. Louis received money directly from them later; in the
Thirties Fleischhauer was in direct contact with the SS. See: a) Brechtken,
pp. 54–5, and Sicherheitsdienst, SS reference file Cooperation with other
offices/Fleischhauer-Finke BArch.R 58/988, BL. 3, and also BL 26,90.286;
b) Ben-Itto, p. 134; c) Marrus and Paxton, p. 45, outlines Coston and
Darquier’s funding, to which their notes refer.
In addition, the involvement of:
vi. Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy, Walter Frank’s Reich Institute for the History
of the New Germany and Wilhlem Grau’s Frankfurt Institute for Research
on the Jewish Question are often mentioned as funding agents in these
years.
vii. The police report of July 1939 states that another source was the publisher
Deutscher Fichte-bund of Hamburg, with the French anti-Semite most
active in this connection being Serpeille de Gobineau. This report calls
Darquier a ‘Fourrier d’Hitler’, Hitler’s Harbinger. This may well be the money
Louis received in June 1939. ‘After establishing contact with the prefecture