Louis Darquier de Pellepoix (real name Louis Darquier) (December 19, 1897, Cahors – August 29, 1980, near Málaga, Spain)^{[citation needed]} was Commissioner for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy Régime.^[1] December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Cahors is a town in Western France in the Lot département. ... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Location of Málaga Municipality Málaga Mayor Francisco de la Torre Prados Area    - City 385,50 km²  - Land 385,50 km²  - Water 0. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ...

A veteran of World War I, Darquier had been active in Fascist and antisemitic politics in France in the 1930s, being a member, at various times, of Action Française, Croix-de-feu and Jeunesses Patriotes. Feb. 6, 1934, he was injured at the Place de la Concorde riot, and, according to the Janet Maslin, writing in the New York Times in 2006, "parlayed (his) new status as a 'man of 6 February' into a leadership role." ^[2] In 1937, he said, at a public meeting, "We must, with all urgency, resolve the Jewish problem, whether by expulsion, or massacre."^[3] A British report in 1942 called him "one of the most notorious anti-semites in France".^[4] At Nazi Germany's behest, he was appointed to head Vichy's Commissariat General aux Questions Juives (Office for Jewish Affairs) in May 1942, succeeding Xavier Vallat, whom the SS in France found too moderate.[1] Darquier's ascendancy to this post immediately preceded the first mass deportations of Jew from France to concentration camps. He was fired in February 1944 when, in Nicholas Fraser's words, "his greed and incompetence could no longer be countenanced."^[5] Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Franz... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... The Action Française is a French Monarchist movement and periodical founded by Maurice Pujo and Henri Vaugeois and whose principal ideologist was Charles Maurras. ... Croix de Feu was a French nationalist group of the Interwar period. ... The Jeunesses Patriotes (Patriotic Youths) were a far right Fascist-inspired street brawlers group of France, recruited mostly from university students and financed by industrialists, founded by Pierre Taittinger in 1924. ... Janet Maslin is a book critic for the daily New York Times. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

He was sentenced to death in absentia in 1947 by the French High Court of Justice for collaboration (treason) with a foreign power (Nazi Germany).^{[citation needed]} However, he had fled to Spain, where members of the authoritarian, fascist-leaning regime of Francisco Franco, especially General Antonio Barroso y Sánchez-Guerra, protected him.^{[6][citation needed]} Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ... For in absentia medical care, see Health care delivery. ... Traitor redirects here. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892–20 November or possibly 19 November[1] 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco Bahamonde and commonly known as Generalísimo Francisco Franco (pron. ...

In 1978, a French journalist interviewed him. Among other things, Darquier declared that in Auschwitz, gas was not used to kill humans, but only lice, and that allegations of killings by this method were lies by the Jews.^[7] The interview was printed in L'Express and started off an instantaneous scandal. The extradition of Darquier was considered, but was refused by Spain.^{[citation needed]} Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of Oświęcim, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Oświęcim (called by the Germans Auschwitz) itself. ... // For other uses, see Gas chamber (disambiguation). ... Suborders Anoplura (sucking lice) Rhyncophthirina Ischnocera (avian lice) Amblycera (chewing lice) Lice (singular: louse) (order Phthiraptera) are an order of over 3000 species of wingless parasitic insects. ... LExpress is Frances first weekly news magazine. ... Extradition is the official process by which one nation or state requests and obtains from another nation or state the surrender of a suspected or convicted criminal. ...

The London psychiatrist Anne Darquier was his daughter by his Tasmanian wife, Myrtle Jones. She was more or less abandoned by her parents as a child in the 1930s in London (left with a nanny, then not provided for financially).^[8] Anne Darquier (1930–September 1970), a psychiatrist, was the daughter of the French fascist Louis Darquier de Pellepoix and his Tasmanian wife, Myrtle Jones. ... Motto: Ubertas et Fidelitas (Fertility and Faithfulness) Other Australian states and territories Capital Hobart Governor William Cox Premier Paul Lennon (ALP) Area 90,758 km² (7th)  - Land 68,401 km²  - Water 22,357 km² (24. ... Myrtle Jones (d. ...

Notes and references

1. ^ Fraser, p.89
2. ^ Maslin 2006
3. ^ Fraser, p.89–91
4. ^ Brewis
5. ^ Fraser, p.91, says he was fired in 1943; the more precise dates come from Brewis.
6. ^ Fraser, p.91
7. ^ English translation of the 1978 interview in L'Express, accessed online on a right-wing American "Christian Nationalism" website, 11 October 2006.
8. ^ Fraser, p.88–90

• Kathy Brewis, The villain of Vichy France, Sunday Times, 19 March 2006. Accessed online 11 October 2006.
• Peter Conrad, Vile days in Vichy, The Observer, 26 March 2006. Accessed online 11 October 2006.
• Nicholas Fraser, "Toujours Vichy: a reckoning with disgrace", Harper's, October 2006, p.86–94. Review of two books, including Callil, Bad Faith.
• Encyclopedia of the Holocaust Darquier de Pellepoix, Louis [2]
• Janet Maslin, On the Unsavory Trail of a Vichy-Era Monster, New York Times October 12, 2006.
• David A. Bell, "The Collaborator", The Nation, December 11, 2006, pp. 28-36. Review of Bad Faith by Carmen Callil, includes a summary of that book.

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Further reading

• Carmen Callil, Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland, and Vichy France, Jonathan Cape: 2006. ISBN 0-224-07810-0. Also Alfred A. Knopf 2006: ISBN 0-375-41131-3. Callil began her research via Anne Darquier.