Louis Darquier de Pellepoix

Louis Darquier , more known under its name of loan Louis Darquier de Pellepoix , (Cahors, December 19th 1897 - August 29th 1980, close to Malaga, Spain), Journalist, militant politicking Anti-semite and French of Extreme right-hand side. In May 1942, under the instigation of Theodor Dannecker, it is named by Pierre Laval with the direction of the General police station to the Jewish questions to replace Xavier Vallat.

Biography

Louis Darquier was born in a family from notable from Cahors. His/her father, Doctor Pierre Darquier, was mayor of the town of 1907 with 1919. Volunteer 17 years in the French troops during the First World War, Louis Darquier fails becoming military career and is demobilized in 1919. He works several years in a company of trade of grains, but is laid off to have speculated with the funds of the company. Then begin a period of several years of Bohemian life. Applicant to have an aristocratic ascent, it affirms being going down from the astronomer of the 18th century Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, of which it unduly allots the particle and of another homonym, of which it allots the title of baron. It expatriate in Great Britain, where he marries the actress Australia Myrtle Jones, known as Sandra Lindsay. He saw primarily money that sends its family to him, and tries without success a literary career. He ends up leaving London - where he gives up his daughter in low age - and to return to France.

The agitator anti-semite

After its return in France, he tells his family to wish to give up the bohemian life and approaches Catholicism. His/her older brother, sympathizer of the French Action, makes him discover the mediums of nationalism. The events of the February 6th, 1934, during which it is seriously wounded with the leg, give the opportunity to him to reach notoriety by melting the Association of Wounded and Victims of February 6th . He becomes shortly after general secretary of the nationalist daily newspaper the Day. It is elected in 1935 City council man Paris and is then always close to the French Action. After the victory of the Popular front to the elections of 1936, it creates its own party, the Rassemblement anti-Jew of France, and moves away from the Nationalisme French germanophobe to approach the theses to the Nazi Germany. It founds the newspaper Frank connected the , official body of its party. Since 1936, Darquier de Pellepoix claimed the denaturalisation of the Jews become French citizens after the November 11th 1918. Entered in relation to organizations Nazis of propaganda, it uses the expression " Fritz cheer! " to congratulate Adolf Hitler on the execution of the Night of crystal. In 1940, it engages in the French troops and is made prisoner. It is released by German two months later.

He is general Commissaire with the Jewish questions under the Régime of Vichy starting from May 1942, imposed by the German authorities which judged its predecessor Xavier Vallat too moderate. He was in particular regarded as one of the persons in charge of the raid of Vel of hiv of the 16 - July 17th 1942, although its role in the business seems to have been rather passive.

The 1943, an article signed by Darquier is published in Small Parisian the :

“I propose with the government:

# to institute the port of the yellow star in nonoccupied zone;

# to prohibit with the Jewish , without any exemption, the access and the exercise of the public office (...)

# withdrawal of French nationality with all the Jews which acquired it since 1927. ”

Having failed to make adopt its proposals by Pierre Laval, showing in its functions a disputed assiduity, little appreciated by the Marshal Pétain which qualified it " tortionnaire" , shown embezzlements in the management of the Jewish goods, Darquier is replaced by Charles of Paty de Clam in February 1944.

Release

After the Release, he flees in Spain where he is French professor, then employed as translator in an administration. He is condemned to died by Contumace in 1947. In 1978, it grants an interview negationnist to the Express train , which publishes it the October 28th 1978. It declares there in particular “I will say to you, me, which occurred exactly to Auschwitz. There is gauze. Yes, it is true. But there is gauze the lice. ” It also clears any responsibility in the raid for Vél d' Hiv', for which it allots the responsibility to Rene Bousquet, general secretary of the national police force. He dies peacefully in Spain. Its Extradition, required by France in 1978 only following the publication of its interview in the Express train , had been refused by Spain (however committed since 1975 in the democratic transition), Darquier not having been condemned for War crimes and its health condition being considered to be too precarious. He dies in 1980; its death will be announced with the public only three years later.

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