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 "... From Jean Bey´s and (André´s) personal file, from the interrogation of the police at Hälsingborg, (Issued July 13 1943), and later the Social Board,(Socialstyrelsen/ The Foreigner´s bureau, important, dealing with visa and working permits) where they arrived July 8, escaping from Germany.
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THE ESCAPE AS GERMAN POW´S: 1943:
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Jean Bey arrived to Sweden in company with Michel André, both been PoWs in the German Stalager II A (Stammlager) Neu Brandenburg. They escaped together hiding in a boxcar from Warnemünde, destination Sweden, from July 4:
”Bey then first broke, the seal, then they arranged inside, an hideout with their belongings, but Bey could then close the door from outside, and pull the seal, back in place, as they then could creep back through a small window. The boxcar was checked July 6, but they weren’t disclosed, and the same day, the train went through Denmark, to Helsingör, and July 8, with ferry to Helsingborg, was checked once more, but… then they arrived , called for attention of Swedish railway personnel and the police, and could later after usual identification, questioning, medical examination, leave for Stockholm and the Socialstyrelsen, (Utlänningsbyrån) and the ‘French legation, Friday July 9.”
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BORN IN PARIS:
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Bey (b.19) was son of the restaurateur Clement Bey, living at the Paris city-address, VI, Rue de Faubourg, no. 90,S:t Antonie, and after the school 8 years he spent three years(3) in a restaurateur school, then one year at his father´s restaurant, Au Boillon Moderne /Paris, before volunteered, (*must be about 1937) to the French infantry regiment no 46, at Fontainbleu, where he was pro-moted to NCO, March, 1939. He was not married.
During the war, 1940, May 10, he fought the Wehrmacht, near the border to Luxembourg, but his regiment waslater deployed to the south, and became PoW in the village of Aire in the department of the Ardennes, July 11, 1940. In Germany, to the Stalag II A, Rostock, in an ”Arbeitskommando.” He planned from beginning to escape to Sweden, but first, when he met Michel André, were they able to organize an escape, after three years. He then worked outside Rostock, at Warnemünde, went by train, to a ”dr Heinkel´s” house, and saw the railway station filled with freightcars…
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BEY AND ANDRÈ: FOUGHT AND SURRENDERED IN THE FRENCH ARMY : 1940:
Michel André (b.12), son of the actor Marcelle André, Rue de Rome, no 135, Paris. He went through the schools, École Bossuet in Paris, second schools , Louis Le Grand , and Pasteur, and became student, 1928. Then employed of Rapid Pullman Service, Place Vendome, no 16 for three years, before he like his father became an actor, but was conscripted, 1934-1935, The Dragoon regiment no. 4, at Verdun. Married with Simone van Bellingen, had a son, 7 years,and lived, now at the Rue Bixio no 14, Paris VII.
(* Michel André acted in many French movies, (and radio/plays, 275), got the Le Prix Rejeaude theatre, during the 1930s, and even in a Swedish movie/crime-drama, 1944. : På farliga vägar = On dangerous roads, with then wellknown: Birgit Tengroth, Sture Lagerwall, Erik ”Bullen” Berglund, and Michel André, as the French engineer : ”Gaston Bartou.” First night December 26, 1944. (Source : http:Svensk filmdatabas/ Wikip. På farliga vägar) (*Jean Bey and Jane Horney met first March 20, as ”extras” in a Swedish movie-studio.)
André was called up one week before the outbreak of the war, May 1940, fought, but became German PoW May 23, at ”Mazingarle” (must be the Mazingarbe village – 100 km south of Dunqerque/ Dunkirk) of Pas de Calais. In Germany, to Woserin in Mecklenburg, working in a swine stable, then to Dickhof, a gravel-pit, then to Rostock (Arb.komm. B377/Marienee II), where he met Jean Bey. (*The French army’s defeat, the summer of 1940, made another, about 2 million soldiers PoWs for Germany, a figure to be compared with the Red army’s surrendering units, of the same scale, 1941, during the German Barbarossa/” Red Beard” initial phase, June -December 1941, the Blitzkrieg.)
JEAN BEY:
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Jean Bey later had employment , at the wellknown, Restaurant Hasselbacken, Stockholm, Djurgården, from July 30 – October 30, 1943, then living at the Listonhill, (Lilla Villan), at the Djurgården, had applied for, residence visa, labour permit, as cook (cuisinier) his reference, the French de Gaulle legation, (Vaux Saint-Cyr) Karlavägen 60.
December 21, 1943, Bey had new working permit as actor and visa and language teacher,(The Folkuniversi-tetet) from November 1943, to May 26, 1944, and stayed at the Holländargatan no. 24., c/o Geddes, (widow and former teacher, adjunct.)
June 1, 1944, Bey was back in Stockholm, but had sent in his passport from Tällberg May, 22,(where he stayed 17-31 May) for prolongation of the Socialstyrelsen, of his visa, permit stay, for six months, May, 26- December 26, 1944, as teacher of languages, and actor och was approved, stayed then at: c/o Milton, Döbelnsgatan 77 B.
Jean Bey seemed maybe more, patriotic, (French army volunteer 1937) in Sweden and with his connection to the French legation, and Pierre Garnier, the military attaché, in some joint British/French intelligence mission, from his information to Jane Horney, during their meeting, the spring of 1944, as his contact with Herbert Caird North, May 17, (*how come this contact ?) and his perhaps rare departure, a SOE-ticket, to Britain, October 21, 1944.
From the source: Transatlantic Antifascisms/ Michael Seidman. – (2018) Cambridge UP. : – – – ” During the reconquest of Normandy (1944), the British cooperated thoroughly with Gaullist civil authorities. De Gaulle´s headquarters in London, used its: Commission d´Action Militaire, which coordinated the parachuting of supplies, to hinder Communist hegemony. By August 1944, anti-revolutionary Gaullists decide to nationalize the maquisards (underground) and Resistance fighters, with the goal of integrating and moderating revol-utionaries.- – – The weight of Communists in the resistance disturbed both Washington and London, which acted to strengthen its non-Communist element. They supplied weapons only to non-Communist French Resistance movements, and as early as December 1943, Eisenhower, pledged that Free French troops would be among the first to enter Paris.The 2nd armoured Division, (Leclerc´s) led the march into the capital on 24-25 August, 1944.” – –
Maybe Seidman´s tight but very interesting study, (338 p.) gives clues of Jean Bey´s fate, that last fall of the war, but pointing as in Denmark, to the conditions what even decided, Jane Horney´s and Ernst Gilbert´s´s fate, of 1944/1945. Thinking even of Raoul ”the II ”, Nordling, the Swedish consul in Paris, since many years, the ”Saviour of Paris”, in negotiations with the German forces, general Choltitz, 1944.
From that to the Warzaw uprising, the same time, and Raoul Wallenberg, staying in Budapest, a potential liasion man in such ventures, with the Hungarian resistance, signs of that, are not lacking, from start, July 11, the young legation secretary, maybe viewed as an ”young intelligence operative”, but in another ”sphere of interest”, ruled with tougher means, but anyway possible to anticipate, from the Western Allies and Sweden’s own political measures.
Paris-Warsaw-Budapest, I find this ”axis” of capitals of 1944, before, as even symbolic dangerous battle-grounds, between the Allies military offensives,, and the national resisters/underground, a fact most avoided of the Swedish government and her Foreign ministry (UD), and their contemporary, analysts, unable to ”read the play”, and the risks, both before and after, January 17, 1945 – or was Wallenberg expendable?
M.Seidman: ” – – – Ultimately, though the Western Allies did not have to match, the Nazis in military ruthlessness and brutality, since their Soviet partner performed that function. Indeed only, because of the willingness of the Soviet Union to sacrifice its own citizens more massively than Germany, was nazism vanquished as quickly as a it was. – – –
Must be add, and even the big Jewish ghettos in Budapest, about 70.000-(100.000 = 25.000 in hiding, or more?) people, were in the end rescued of the Red Army’s military force, with their 80.000 own casualties, due to most serious scholars. ..."
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