VIF 207
Small archive of Vichy propaganda press photos. Shows Petain at Notre Dame in Paris following an Allied air raid; Petain in Auvergne celebrating the anniversary of the Legion; Secretary of State for Supply attempting to calm the public about the supply problem; Petain arriving at a sports stadium; Mr. Duranne, secretary of the Friends of the Marshall, speaking; public protest over English aggression; Petain at Metz on December 6-8, 1918; Petain in Southern France with rare shot of Renee Bousquet standing behind him; Vichy advertising on the wall of a hotel. All but one of nine photos captioned. B
Price: $600.00
Note from Wikipedia: VIF 207René Bousquet (11 May 1909 – 8 June 1993) was a high-ranking French political appointee who served as secretary general to the Vichy French police from May 1942 to 31 December 1943. For personal heroism, he had become a protégé of prominent officials before the war and had risen rapidly in the government. In 1949, he was automatically convicted as a Vichy official and sentenced to five years of indignité nationale, but his sentence was reduced due to beliefs that he also aided the French Resistance and attempted to preserve some autonomy for French police during the German occupation. Excluded from the government, he went into business. After receiving amnesty in 1959, Bousquet became active again in politics by supporting left-wing politicians through the 1970s and becoming a regular visitor in the 1980s of François Mitterrand after his election as president. In 1989, after years of increasing accusations about his activities during the war, Bousquet was accused by three groups of crimes against humanity. He was ultimately indicted by the French Ministry of Justice in 1991 for his decisions during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942, which led to Jewish children being deported and killed in German extermination camps in Eastern Europe. Bousquet was assassinated in 1993 by Christian Didier shortly before his trial was to begin.
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