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...would have detained Petain in Versailles and shifted the Vichy Government to Paris. At any rate, Laval was arrested and imprisoned in his chateau at Chatel-don (the man who arrested him was Marcel Peyrouton, who last week resigned as Vichy's Ambassador to Argentina). Next day Otto Abetz, the German ruler of Occupied France, sped to Vichy in a huge Mercedes mounting two machine guns, demanded and got Laval's release. Then & there began the German pressuring for Laval's restoration which culminated last week...
Last week the London Daily Mirror said that Corinne had been the mistress of Otto Abetz, the Nazi boss of Paris, for three years. She is currently the first lady of Paris, said the Mirror, and her salon is a meeting place for high-ranking Nazis and highly placed French collaborationists. Corinne came by her preference for Germans honestly. Her father, Jean Luchaire, is a leader of the pro-Nazi National People's Party, editor of the Nazi-controlled Le Matin and Les Nouveaux Temps...
What Hermann Göing and Henri Pétain talked about on this, their first meeting; what the lesser men in their entourage-Vice Premier Admiral Jean François Darlan, Ambassador to Paris Fernand de Brinon, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ambassador Otto Abetz-said to one another was not revealed as the meeting ended. There were many subjects to discuss, many tidbits of concessions that the Germans could offer, most notably the release of the 1,500,000 war prisoners and the restoration of Paris to Vichyfrance. The Germans wanted the Marshal to sign some sort...
...these were subordinate to the Liaison Staff of which Hess was chairman. Its members included Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Rosenberg, Bohle, Otto Abetz, Ley. There was also that "laboratory for the science of conquest," The Institute of Geopolitics, whose 1,000-odd researchers supplied it with "a series of X-ray pictures of all the countries of the world...
Every cable from Vichy supported the belief that negotiations were nearing an end, that Hitler would get what he wanted. Government offices were transferring their officials to Paris. German Ambassador Otto Abetz arrived in Vichy, ostensibly to attend the funeral of General Charles Huntziger (see p. 31), but Ambassador Abetz dined with Marshal Pétain and the next day motored to Chateldon to see his old collaborator, Pierre Laval. On his return he lunched with the Marshal, then set out for Paris. Half an hour later a plane set General Maxime Weygand down at the Vichy airport...