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p. 131 The Bedaux Company’s Dutch headquarters Federal Bureau of Investigation interview with Frederick Ledebur, Telemeter, 21 January 1944, U.S. Department of Justice Communications Section, from F.B.I. files supplied under Freedom of Information Act, unnumbered file, pp. 64692, 64693 and 64694. FOIPA No. 1088544-001.
p. 132 An excellent horseman Christy, The Price of Power, p. 202. Friedrich von Ledebur later worked in films as a coordinator of horse stunts and an actor. He appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 Notorious and played Queequeeg in John Huston’s Moby-Dick in 1956. Also in Moby-Dick was his English ex-wife, Iris Tree, the daughter of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. His last film role was as Admiral Aulent in Fellini’s Ginger and Fred in 1976. See Internet Movie Database at www.imdb.com/name/nm0496428/. He died, aged 86, in 1986.
p. 132 Abetz was married W. Sternfeld, ‘Ambassador Abetz’, Contemporary Review, London, August 1942, p. 86. See also ‘There It Goes?’, Newsweek, 4 January 1943, p. 38. Newsweek wrote, ‘Handsome, elegant, speaking perfect French, Abetz penetrated the most exclusive circles.’
p. 132 ‘Bedaux was more dynamic’ Christy, The Price of Power, p. 217.
p. 133 ‘This millionaire, French’ Bernard Ullmann, Lisette de Brinon, ma mère: Une Juive dans la tourment de la Collaboration, Paris: Editions Complexe, 2004, p. 96.r
p. 133 He invited Bedaux Ungar, The Champagne Safari, at 1:02:30. See also Christy, The Price of Power, p. 216.
p. 133 The friendship that Janet Flanner, ‘Annals of Collaboration: Equivalism I’, The New Yorker, 22 September 1945, p. 31.
p. 134 ‘He is a man drafted’ Christy, The Price of Power, p. 216.
p. 134 ‘During this preliminary’ Pierre Laval, The Unpublished Diary of Pierre Laval, with an introduction by Josée Laval, Countess R. de Chambrun, London: Falcon Press, 1948, p. 71.
p. 134 Medicus supplied Bedaux Henri Michel, Paris Allemand, Paris: Albin Michel, 1981, p. 46.
p. 134 Dr Franz Medicus was a regular Janet Flanner, ‘Annals of Collaboration: Equivalism III’, The New Yorker, 13 October 1945, p. 32.
p. 134 Before the war, de Brinon Alexander Werth, France: 1940–1944, London: Robert Hale Ltd, 1956, p. 126. Werth gives a thorough account of de Brinon’s career on pp. 126–30. See also William Shirer, The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969, p. 385n.
p. 135 The Germans declared Ullmann, Lisette de Brinon, ma mère, pp. 44 and 108.
p. 135 Bedaux gave Pierre-Jérôme In the confused world of ideological commitments of that time, Pierre-Jérôme was attracted to groups that his openly fascist stepfather admired. His brother wrote, ‘As an adolescent in the 1930s, he adhered to the youth movements of the extreme right that flourished in the Latin Quarter without realizing that hate or contempt for Jews was in integral part of their doctrine.’ See Ibid., p. 16. Pierre-Jérôme had enlisted in the army in 1939 and was among the cadets at Saumur who resisted the German advance. Bernard wrote that his brother took provisional employment in a prefecture in the Basses-Pyrénées soon after the beginning of the occupation. See Ibid., p. 113. Bedaux’s son, Charles Emile, told his father’s biographer Jim Christy that Charles Eugene employed de Brinon’s stepson in his French company. Author’s correspondence with Jim Christy, July 2008.
p. 135 His wife’s absence Ullmann, Lisette de Brinon, ma mère, p. 124. Lisette knew of the affair and was jealous of Mittre.
p. 135 For her part, Lisette Werth, France: 1940–1944, p. 126.
Chapter Eleven: A French Prisoner with the Americans
p. 136 ‘the flowers, the walkways’ André Guillon, ‘Testimony of a French PoW on His Time at the American Hospital of Paris’, 13-page typescript in French, p. 1, American Hospital of Paris Archives, File: André Guillon. (My translation.)
p. 136 ‘neutrality that we … There were no sentries’ Ibid., p. 2.
p. 137 Later, it was revealed Note: Coster went to North Africa as one of the vice-consuls in the spy network