In the court of Invalides in Paris, François MITTERRAND, Minister of Veterans Affairs and General KOENIG greeted the ashes of those who fell six years ago in Bir Hakeim. Generals KOENIG, of LARMINAT, and Mr MITTERRAND, Minister of Veterans Affairs greeted the remains, then the families of the disappeared, very moved, gathered in front of the coffins.
Statement by Eugene DELONCLE, President of the Central Committee of the French Legion of Volunteers against Bolshevism, at the first meeting of the LVF at the Vélodrome d'Hiver (Paris 15th). He called for arms "against the Bolshevik enemy of Europe" and "for the French national revolution" among others.
Reminder of the L'Oréal case in which businessman Jean FRYDMAN files a complaint for forgery, use of forgery and racial discrimination. He accuses Jean Corrèze, CEO of the American subsidiary, of being responsible for his eviction, of having been part of the Hood, of having fought in the LVF alongside the Germans during the Second World War and of having protected Nazis after the war.
On the occasion of the second anniversary of the creation of the French Legion of Combatants, a ceremony is organized in Clermont Ferrand.Thirty thousand legionnaires take part in the ceremony held in the presence of Marshal Pétin, head of state, Pierre Laval, head of government, René Bousquet, secretary general of police. Silent document.
Marshal PETAIN visited the city of Lyon on June 6, 1944. PETAIN saluting, standing in his open car, crossing streets full of people to the town hall, place des Terreaux. Received by nuns, Marshal PETAIN, accompanied by Doctor André BERTRAND, Mayor of Lyon, visited the wounded of the recent bombing of Lyon at the Grange Blanche Hospital.
The writer and philosopher Raymond ABELLIO looks back on the journey of Eugène Deloncle with whom he directed the MSR: from Action Française to la Cagoule.
Jacques CORREZE died of pancreatic cancer, a few hours after he submitted his resignation to L'Oréal, which ran the American subsidiary. This former balaclava and collaborationist was accused of anti-Semitism, he participated in the seizure of Jewish property during World War II and ousted Jean FRYDMAN from his post. Interviews with Jacques CORREZE, a few days before his death, and Jean FRYDMAN by telephone.
The writer and philosopher Raymond ABELLIO recounts his meeting with Eugène Deloncle, one of the founders of the Cagoule (Osarn), with whom he will lead the Social Revolutionary Movement (MSR), a fascist-inspired party founded by Deloncle and Schueller in 1940.
Georges BEAUCHAMP evokes the François Mitterrand of the Resistance and the creation of the MNPGD (National Movement of Prisoners of War and Deportees) also with Philippe Dechartre and André André Bettencourt. Asked about the political action of François Mitterrand after the war, Georges BEAUCHAMP explains that there was a need to create a new elite after the collaboration and that "François Mitterrand felt an encouragement to integrate into a system with a political vocation".
Debate in the National Assembly on the rehabilitation of the putschist generals of the Algerian war. The government through Pierre MAUROY assumes its responsibility by using the 49.3 procedure of the Constitution. Prime Minister addresses MEPs "20 years have passed... A people is always stronger when it overcomes its divisions.... we are there to reconcile and gather..."
Alain DECAUX returns to the origin of "the hood", a secret organization of the far right, originally called the Secret Organization of National Revolutionary Action (OSARN). It is Maurice Pujo who, speaking of this organization founded by dissidents of the Action française, will say "do not all these people conspire wearing a hood". Photographs of the main organizers: Eugène DELONCLE, Jean FILLIOL, General DUSEIGNEUR, Colonel GROUSSARD, Dr Henri MARTIN and Professor VAUDREMER.
Debate in the National Assembly on the rehabilitation of the putschist generals of the Algerian war.Going against the opinion of the socialist deputies, the government through P. MAUROY uses the procedure 49 paragraph 3 of the Constitution.Intervention of Guy DUCOLONE of the PCF "If we reinstate these generals today, it will be more difficult tomorrow to have our people pitted against other factious elements". Pierre de BENOUVILLE, RPR approves the government "the generals even if they made a mistake we did generously". Alain MADELIN on the use of article 49.3 "The government chooses to practice what François Mitterrand called yesterday the theft of democracy"
Lawyer Serge Klarsfeld lodges a complaint against René Bousquet - prefect of Champagne during the Second World War -for complicity in crimes against humanity. In an interview he talks about René Bousquet’s involvement in the deportations of Jews, which is why he filed this complaint. He mentions in particular a telegram sent by Prefect Bousquet which forbade deported Jewish parents to leave their children in a free zone.
Working session between Marshal Pétain and Pierre Laval. The head of the government goes up the stairs to the office of Marshal Pétain, shakes his hand and they exchange words seated side by side during this "daily conference" (according to the comment).
In Fribourg, the French occupation zone, the Minister of Veterans Affairs François MITTERRAND came to open the Congress of deportees of the Resistance. Comment on images of François MITTERRAND saluting the flag and then giving a speech.
Arrival in Paris of Reinhard HEYDRICH, SS General, Head of Security, instructed by the Head of SS and German Police, Heinrich HIMMLER, to install in his duties Karl OBERG, General of SS and police in occupied territoirs. General HEYDRICH receives in Paris René BOUSQUET, Secretary General of the Police, and Georges HILAIRE, Secretary General of the Administration. He also contacted Louis DARQUIER de PELLEPOIX, the Commissioner General for Jewish Affairs, as well as Fernand de BRINON.