Gédéon van Houten

Gédéon van Houten known as " Boby" , also called the baron d' Humières , (° 1904 - † 1946) is of Dutch origin .

The November 30th 1937, it is condemned to 10 years of detention for espionage to the profit of the German S and to twenty years of prohibition of stay by the Council of war of Paris.

At the time of the rout of June 1940, he escapes and will meet Rudy de Mérode with which he will be read friendship. They will form what will be called " The gestapo of Neuilly" who worked as the band with Lafont for Otto, i.e. the recovery of the Jewish goods and the fight against resistance. Their team was made of a also made up score of taken again old people justice of which Serge of Lenz or former spies German.

With the whole beginning they will settle close to the services of otto to the 18, Square of the Bois de Boulogne then, after requisition a building to the 18, Rue Pétrarque in Paris. In February 1941, they will move in with the 70, Boulevard Maurice Barrès with Neuilly. According to the testimony of the Master of hotel, nearly fifty people were stopped during the year of their stay.

References

See also: Gestapo Frenchwoman, Friedrich Shepherd, Henri Lafont, Christian Masuy, Rudy de Mérode

beautiful years of the " milieu" 1940-1944 by Grégory Auda, ED. Michalon, 2002
countesses of Gestapo by Cyril Eder, ED. Grasset, 2007

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