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Jun 9, 1993 · Tue 8 Jun 1993 21.20 EDT. Rene Bousquet, the police chief responsible for the mass deportation of Jews from occupied wartime France, was shot dead in Paris yesterday. A man was arrested after ...
Bousquet, Rene (1909--1993), Chief of the French police during the period of Nazi occupation. Bousquet was responsible for the collaboration of the police in the rounding up of Jews and their dispatch to Drancy and other French transit camps. This included the infamous round up of some 12,000 Jews at the
- Philippe Pétain
- René Bousquet
- Louis Darquier de Pellepoix
- Paul Touvier
- Pierre Pucheu
A First World War hero, nicknamed the ‘Lion of Verdun‘, Pétain became Head of State following the fall of France in 1940. After months of brutal warfare and the realisation that there was no way France could continue to fight the Germans, many initially welcomed Pétain’s prominent reappearance in national politics. However, he quickly began to show...
Born in 1909, Bousquet became a national hero after rescuing dozens of people from drowning in floods: he was awarded the Legion of Honour and rose rapidly within the government, being named sous-préfet for Vitry-le-François in 1938, and a préfet in 1940 following the French armistice with Germany. In 1942, Bousquet was appointed general secretary ...
Darquier had long been involved in Fascist politics: his views, particularly on anti-Semitism, were well-known and well publicised. In 1942, he was appointed the Vichy’s Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs: the SS had found his predecessor too moderate in his approach to what Darquier described as the ‘Jewish problem‘. Under Darquier, mass depo...
Touvier was born to a conservative Catholic family in 1915, and after a relatively obscure childhood, was mobilized for the war effort in 1939. The Touvier family were firm supporters of Philippe Pétain’s and although Paul initially fought against the Wehrmacht, he deserted the French army. The establishment of the Milice (Vichy France’s militia) o...
Pucheu was a successful industrialist: his politics, including opposition to the Munich Agreement, were initially aligned to his business interests, although he became increasingly right-wing in reaction to what he perceived as the growth of communism. Following the occupation in 1941, Pucheu’s political profile rose considerably and he was made Mi...
- Sarah Roller
Bousquet, 84, was the senior Vichy police official in unoccupied France between 1942 and 1944. It was in this period, July 16-17, 1942, that 12,000 Jews were rounded up in a Paris stadium built ...
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Jun 8, 1993 · It was to recall that on 16 and 17 July 1942, the French police, acting under the orders of Rene Bousquet, brought together some 13,000 Jews including 4,000 children in a Paris velodrome. They ...
Jun 8, 1993 · PARIS -- Rene Bousquet, who led the police during the Vichy regime and was responsible for the deportation of tens of thousands of Jews to German concentration camps during World War II, was ...
The Vélodrome d'Hiver (or "Vél d'Hiv") roundup was the largest French deportation of Jews during the Holocaust. It took place in Paris on July 16–17, 1942. To preserve the fiction of a French police force independent of the German occupiers, French policemen carried out the mass arrest of some 13,000 Jewish men, women, and children. In ...
