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Germaine Marie Rosine Tillion - son Livre ouvert ! The Haennig-Nordmann Papers: Two Lawyers in Occupied France
Germaine Tillion (1907-2008), ethnologist, arrested in 1942, deported in October 1943 from Paris via Aix-la-Chapelle to KL Ravensbruck, n° 24588, where she was liberated by the Allies and the Red Cross on 23 April 1945.
Boris Vilde (1908-1942), linguist and ethnographer, imprisoned at the Prison du Cherche-Midi, and at the Prison de la Sante, transferred to Fresnes on 16 June 1941. He received a visit from the Prosecutor on 21 October 1941. He was defended by Maitre Kraehling, accused of serious crimes, including espionage, found guilty, executed on 23 February 1942. Cited in German documents n° 12-17, 1941 n° 25, February 1942 and in Nordmann's letter, n° 34, 1942 (see above). His prison diary and correspondence were published by Francois Bedarida and Dominique Veillon in 1988: Boris Vilde, Journal et lettres de prison 1941-1942, Cahiers de Vlnstitut d'Histoire du Temps Present (Paris), 7, f6vrier 1988. He makes no reference to Nordmann.
Pierre Walter (1906-1942), photographer, imprisoned at the Prison du Cherche-Midi, Paris, accused of serious crimes, including espionage, found guilty, executed 23 February 1942. Cited in German documents n° 12-17, 1941 (see above). He was defended by Maitre Wilhelm of Alsatian origin.
Andre Weil-Curiel (1910-1988), lawyer, is cited in the German documents n° 12-18 above, dated from October 1940 through October 1941. Weil-Curiel is also cited in documents by Haennig, n° 27, n° 29 (1942), n° 35 (1944) and by Nordmann, n° 34 (1942) above. As a liaison agent to the British expeditionary force, he was among the 140.000 French soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk to England in June 1940, he then met De Gaulle on June 19"", Joined his Free French movement, and was sent back to France on 18 July 1940, using the alias "Dubois", to recruit and organize, arriving in Paris on August 25 . He contacted Nordmann, as well as Boris Vilde, in the Fall of 1940. Although he was arrested on the demarcation line dividing France between the Occupied North and the "Free" Southern Zone on 5 March 1941, he was not tried with the other group members, and in effect freed on 26 April 1941 on orders of his Francophile friend, the German Ambassador Otto Abetz (his friend since 1930 and who, for example, had invited him to the Olympic Games in 1936, and whom he even met, apparently accidentally, in a Paris tea-room in November 1940). He managed to return to London via Spain in March 1942, but was considered suspect, was sent as a lieutenant to French Polynesia and survived the war. At the Liberation, he faced several enquiries, a legal case against him was eventually dismissed in October 1946 and he was reinstated by the Paris Bar in 1948. In 1945, with Raymond Castro, he had published one of the first works on spoliation and restitution: Spoliations et restitutions: commentaire theorique et pratique de la legislation relative aux spoliations, Paris, Editions R.G., and in 1945 and 1946, self-justifying works on the Resistance and on the Occupation in France: Le Jour se leve a Londres, Paris, Editions du Myrte, and Le temps de la honte: Eclipse en France, Paris, Editions du Myrte. Laurent Laloup le mercredi 27 décembre 2023 - Demander un contact Recherche sur cette contribution | |