Americans in Paris_ Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation - Charles Glass [91]
Josephine Baker, the quintessential American Parisian, spy for French intelligence and anti-Nazi résistante.
William C. Bullitt, United States Ambassador to France 1936–1940. He pleaded with his friend, President Franklin Roosevelt, to save France.
Roosevelt, Marguerite LeHand and William C. Bullitt, July 22, 1940. “Missy” LeHand was Bullitt’s sometime mistress, and FDR was disappointed that Bullitt did not marry her.
Myrsine and Helene Moschos and Sylvia Beach next to Ernest Hemingway, outside Shakespeare and Co. at 12 rue de l’Odéon for Sylvia’s birthday party in March 1928.
(Left to right) James Joyce, Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier in Shakespeare and Co., 1938.
Sylvia Beach in Shakespeare and Co., May 1941, during the Battle of France.
Sylvia Beach decorates the bookshop’s window, May 1941.
Adrienne Monnier in La Maison des Amis des Livres.
Countess Clara Longworth de Chambrun (far right) in the American Library in Paris.
Clara fought to keep the library open throughout the occupation.
An information card for the American Library.
René de Chambrun, an American citizen and the first lawyer admitted to the bar in both France and New York, with Josée Laval at the time of their engagement in 1935.
Clara’s house at the corner of the Luxembourg Gardens. The small villa it overlooks is heavily fortified by the Luftwaffe.
Pierre Laval (third from left) leaving the Château de Châteldon, 1942. Josée de Chambrum, his daughter, and her husband René are either side of him.
Charles Bedaux and his wife, Fern, South Africa, 1939.
Charles and Fern Bedaux.
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI who took an interest in Bedaux’s activities from late 1941. The FBI also investigated René de Chambrun.
Charles Bedaux’s country residence, the Château de Candé, in 1937, the year it hosted the wedding of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson.
Dr Sumner Jackson with his son, Phillip (“Pete”), in the garden of their avenue Foch apartment, c.1930.
SD Major-General Karl Oberg was responsible for tracking down members of the Resistance in Paris, including Dr Jackson.
Dr Edmund Gros, the director of the American Hospital of Paris.
Dr Sumner Jackson (centre), Dr Thierry Martel (in profile just in front of him), Dr Edmund Gros (fourth from the left) and Charlotte “Toquette” Jackson (third nurse from the right). This photo was taken in the garden of the American Hospital at Neuilly just before the German occupation of Paris.
The entrance to the American Hospital in Neuilly, c.1930.
Drue Leyton, the glamorous American actress whose broadcasts on Radio Mondiale made her a target for the Nazis.
Florence Jay Gould, who hosted a weekly salon of German and French writers in her suite at the Hôtel Bristol and at her avenue Malakoff apartment.
Polly Peabody’s author photo from her 1941 book Occupied Territory.
General Otto von Stülpnagel, German military commander of France, 1939.
Karl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel, c.1940. Otto’s cousin and successor in France. He believed that killing hostages both violated the soldier’s code and failed to intimidate the Resistance.
A German military parade passes the Hôtel de Crillon (left) and the French Naval Ministry (right) on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, 1940. The American Embassy is just beyond the Crillon.
Paris under occupation outside the Hôtel Meurice, the last German HQ in the city.
Marshal Pétain (centre in dark suit), pictured with his cabinet, the day after he succeeded French premier Paul Reynaud, 17 June 1940. Also pictured are Pierre Laval (with papers to the left of Pétain) and Defence Minister Maxime Weygand (in uniform to the right of Pétain).
Marshal Pétain (left) with American Ambassador to Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, February 1941.
Robert D. Murphy, US Embassy counsellor in France and President Roosevelt