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p. 157 ‘I read them’ André Guillon, ‘Testimony of a French PoW on His Time at the American Hospital of Paris’, p. 12.
p. 157 ‘She had the grace’ Ibid., p. 11.
p. 157 ‘He was alone’ ‘Personnel Reste à L’Hôpital le 14 Juin 1940’, p. 5, American Hospital of Paris Archives, File: Testimony of a Wounded French PoW on his time at A.H.P, 1940, and Personnel, 1940. Mlle Svetchine is the only nurse listed whose name is Russian and begins with an S.
p. 157 ‘You undress … There was obviously’ Guillon, ‘Testimony of a French PoW on His Time at the American Hospital of Paris’, p. 12.
p. 158 Mademoiselle D. was probably ‘U.S. Acts on Clerk Jailed by Gestapo’, New York Times, 7 December 1940, p. 2.
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p. 159 On 12 December Herbert Lottman, Pétain: Hero or Traitor, The Untold Story, New York: William Morrow, 1985, p. 227.
p. 159 L’Aiglon, or ‘the little eagle’ ‘The Dead Eaglet’, Time, 23 December 1940.
p. 159 Laval warned Abetz Yves Pourcher, Pierre Laval: Vu par sa fille d’après ses carnets intimes, Paris: Le Cherche-Midi, 2002, p. 207. Herbert Lottman, a reliable historian, writes in Pétain: Hero or Traitor, p. 227, that Laval drove from Paris to Vichy with Fernand de Brinon, without giving a source.
p. 160 ‘I had scarcely entered’ Pierre Laval, The Unpublished Diary of Pierre Laval, with an introduction by Josée Laval, Countess R. de Chambrun, London: Falcon Press, 1948, p. 82.
p. 160 At the Hôtel du Parc Fernand de Brinon, Mémoires, Paris: La P. Internationale, 1949, pp. 52–4. See also Yves Pourcher, Pierre Laval, p. 210, quoting Josée Laval’s diary. Historian Herbert Lottman explained, ‘If Action Française [the extreme rightist, Catholic and monarchist group founded by Charles Maurras], a major influence in the cabinet, was anti-Semitic and anti-Freemason, even a certain degree anti-British, it was above all anti-German.’ See Herbert Lottman, Pétain: Hero or Traitor, p. 233.
p. 160 ‘a palace revolution’ Pourcher, Pierre Laval, p. 209.
p. 160 Pétain announced his René de Chambrun, Pierre Laval: Traitor or Patriot?, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1984, p. 59.
p. 160 He sent Hitler David Irving, Hitler’s War and the War Path, 1933–1945, London: Focal Point, 1991, p. 333.
p. 160 ‘This is a heavy … Even if we now’ Ulrich von Hassell, The von Hassell Diaries: 1938–1944, London: Hamish Hamilton, 1948, p. 150.
p. 161 Hitler accepted Ribbentrop’s Lottman, Pétain: Hero or Traitor?, p. 231.
p. 161 On Sunday, 15 December Ian Ousby, Occupation: The Ordeal of France, 1940–1944, London: Pimlico, 1999, p. 117.
p. 161 The ceremony was ‘The Dead Eaglet’, Time, 23 December 1940.
p. 161 ‘I saw for the first time’ Pourcher, Pierre Laval, p. 212, quoting Josée Laval de Chambrun’s diary.
p. 161 ‘The people from … where he is safe’ Pourcher, Pierre Laval, p. 213.
p. 161 ‘I spent the saddest’ de Chambrun, Pierre Laval: Traitor or Patriot?, p. 65.
p. 161 Worse came the next Jim Christy, in The Price of Power: A Biography of Charles Eugene Bedaux, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1984, p. 222, writes that ‘on December 15, Joseph von Ledebur left for the Russian front’. There would be no Russian front until Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.
p. 162 On Tuesday morning, 17 December Pourcher, Pierre Laval, p. 213. Josée Laval in her diary for 20 December 1940 reports seeing Lisette de Brinon in Vichy with a friend named Fernande. Bernard Ullmann, Lisette de Brinon, ma mère: Une Juive dans la tourmente de la Collaboration, Paris: Editions Complexe, 2004, pp. 116–18.
p. 162 ‘We played no’ Robert Murphy, Diplomat among Warriors, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1964, p. 88.
p. 163 ‘You are worth a thousand men’ Christy, The Price of Power, p. 224.
p. 163 ‘The beautiful palace’ von Hassell, The von Hassell Diaries: 1938–1944, p. 153.
p. 164 This may have been to Irving,