Louis Darquier, better known under his assumed name Louis Darquier de Pellepoix was Commissioner for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy Régime. 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. On Feb.

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  • Louis Darquier, better known under his assumed name Louis Darquier de Pellepoix was Commissioner for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy Régime. 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. On 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. " During this period he began collaborating with the noted antisemitic publisher Ulrich Fleischhauer's Welt-Dienst / World-Service / Service Mondial organization based in Erfurt, Germany. Darquier's extreme views were well-publicized. In 1937, he said, at a public meeting, "We must, with all urgency, resolve the Jewish problem, whether by expulsion, or massacre. " A British report in 1942 called him "one of the most notorious anti-semites in France". 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. 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. " He was sentenced to death in absentia in 1947 by the French High Court of Justice for collaboration with a foreign power. However, he had fled to Spain, where members of the authoritarian, regime of Francisco Franco, especially General Antonio Barroso y Sánchez-Guerra, protected him. 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. The interview was printed in L'Express and started off an instantaneous scandal. The extradition of Darquier was considered, but was refused by Spain. The London psychiatrist Anne Darquier was his daughter by his Australian 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).
  • Louis Darquier, plus connu sous son nom d'emprunt Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, dit "baron",, journaliste, militant antisémite et politicien français d'extrême droite. En mai 1942, sous l'instigation de Theodor Dannecker, il est nommé par Pierre Laval à la direction du Commissariat général aux questions juives en remplacement de Xavier Vallat .
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  • Louis Darquier, better known under his assumed name Louis Darquier de Pellepoix was Commissioner for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy Régime. 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. On Feb.
  • Louis Darquier, plus connu sous son nom d'emprunt Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, dit "baron",, journaliste, militant antisémite et politicien français d'extrême droite. En mai 1942, sous l'instigation de Theodor Dannecker, il est nommé par Pierre Laval à la direction du Commissariat général aux questions juives en remplacement de Xavier Vallat .
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