Voices from the Dark Years (62 page)

Otto
Von Stülpnagel
committed suicide while awaiting trial in Paris Cherche-Midi prison on 6 February 1948.

P.G. Wodehouse
was released from German detention before his 60th birthday and allowed to live in Berlin in return for making several indiscrete, but not treacherous, broadcasts over Nazi English-language radio. Sent back to France in September 1943 to avoid the Allied bombing of the German capital, he was briefly imprisoned after the Liberation, returned to his US home and was knighted in 1975, a few weeks before his death, aged 93.

N
OTES

  
1.
  Amouroux
La Vie
, Vol. 1, pp. 134–9.

  
2.
  Pryce-Jones,
Paris in the Third Reich
, p. 206.

  
3.
  Interview with Mittre in Pryce-Jones,
Paris in the Third Reich
, p. 217.

  
4.
  Obituary notice in
The Guardian
, 3 December 2005.

  
5.
  Quoted on
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
/2WW laval.

  
6.
  Thornton,
The Liberation of Paris
, pp. 63–8.

  
7.
  Undated newspaper cutting loaned by Françoise de Monbrison.

  
8.
  Pryce-Jones,
Paris in the Third Reich
, p. 149.

  
9.
  Nossiter,
France and the Nazis
, pp. 272–3.

10.
  For further details, see
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Touvier
.

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EADING
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(New York: Caroll and Graf, 2001)

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(London: Arnold/Hodder, 1996)

Pryce-Jones, D.,
Paris in the Third Reich
(London: Collins, 1981)

Kedward, H.R.,
Resistance in Vichy France
(Oxford: OUP, 1978)

Kramer, R.,
Flames in the Field
(London: Michael Joseph, 1995)

Marshall, R.,
All the King’s Men
(London: Collins, 1988)

May, E.R.,
Strange Victory
(New York: Hill and Wang, 2000)

Nicholas, L.H.,
The Rape of Europa
(London: Macmillan, 1994)

Nossiter, A.,
The Algeria Hotel
(London: Methuen, 2001)

Nossiter, A.,
France and the Nazis
(London: Methuen, 2001)

Paris, E.,
Unhealed Wounds
(New York: Grove Press, 1985)

Paxton, R.O.,
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order 1940–44
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2001)

Pechanski, D.,
Collaboration and Resistance
(New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000)

Seel, P.,
I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual
(London: Basic Books, 1995)

Webster, P.,
Pétain’s Crime
(London: Pan, 2001)

West, N.,
Secret War
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1992)

P
LATES

Few French people had heard of Colonel Charles de Gaulle (right) until he appealed for resistance to the German occupation over the BBC on 18 June 1940.

Marshal Philippe Pétain (above) was the legitimate President of France. He mistrusted his devious Prime Minister Pierre Laval (seen with him, left).

What does a hero look like? Farmer Louis de la Bardonnie (left) heard de Gaulle’s broadcast and responded, risking his life and those of his wife Denyse and their nine children (below). (Reproduced by permission of Jacques de La Bardonnie)

While he was on the run with false papers under various identities, she had to file for divorce to protect herself and the children from deportation to the death camps. (Reproduced by permission of Jacques de La Bardonnie)

After the Liberation, de Gaulle came to honour the Bardonnie family (left), but the only thanks they received from Britain for all the risks was this printed certificate below bearing Field Marshal Montgomery’s signature. (Reproduced by permission of Jacques de La Bardonnie)

Ordinary people did extraordinary things. Mayor’s secretary Marius Bouchou (right in naval reservist’s uniform) made false ID papers and accepted an RAF arms drop. Betrayed by a friend, he was deported to Germany and died of starvation and ill treatment. (Reproduced by permission of Cathérine and Robert Hestin)