Thursday, November 2, 2006
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Robert O. Paxton: The Jew Hater - 'In August 1978, an enterprising French journalist, Philippe Ganier-Raymond, tracked down a nearly forgotten eighty-one-year-old French exile in Madrid named Louis Darquier de Pellepoix and cajoled him into conversation. Ganier-Raymond had brought along a tape recorder concealed in a fan. The resulting interview was published in the French newsweekly L'Express on October 28, 1978, under a sensational title: "At Auschwitz They Gassed Only Lice." Louis Darquier (the "de Pellepoix" was fake, like a great deal else in his life) had been the Vichy French government's second commissioner for Jewish affairs between May 1942 and February 1944...'
