Americans in Paris: Life & Death Under Nazi Occupation

by Charles Glass

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  INDEX

  Abadan refinery

  Abetz, Heinrich Otto

  Abetz, Suzanne

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p; Aboulker, Dr Henri

  Abtey, Jacques

  Abwehr (German military intelligence)

  Académie Française

  Achenbach, Ernst

  Action Française

  African-Americans; American Consulate attitudes towards ; Battle of France, participation in ; French intelligence service, work for ; de Gaulle’s army, role in ; jazz musicians; leave Paris ; Nazi attitude towards ; as prisoners of war ; relations with other Parisians ; as soldiers ; US invasion of Paris, exclusion from

  Agir Resistance network

  al-Gailani, Rashid Ali

  Algeria

  Alliance Israelite

  Alsatian Brasserie Lipp

  ambulance drivers, American volunteer

  American Air Forces see also USAAF

  American Ambulance Corps

  American Ambulance Field Service (AAFS)

  American Cathedral, Paris

  American Chamber of Commerce, Paris

  American Church, Paris

  American Club, Paris

  American Consulate, Algiers

  American Consulate, Biarritz

  American Consulate, Brussels

  American Consulate, Lisbon

  American Consulate, Marseilles

  American Embassy in Paris

  American Embassy in Vichy

  American Expeditionary Force,

  American Express

  American Federation of Labor

  American Hospital of Paris ; Aldebert de Chambrun, role in see Chambrun, General Aldebert de; Allied soldiers escape from ; ambulances ; awarded Order of Merit and Croix de Guerre ; Battle of France, role in ; birth of ; board of governors ; Centre d’Hospitalisation pour Blessés de Guerre Libérés ; charter ; destitute, helps the ; Dr Alexis Carrel, role in ; Dr Edmund Gros, role in ; Dr Sumner Jackson and see Jackson, Dr Sumner; Dr Thierry de Martel and ; entertainment in ; field stations ; finances/funding ; First World War ; food and fuel shortages within ; French Red Cross, turned over to ; German attitudes towards ; Jews, treatment of ; literary patients ; Memorial Building ; nurses ; railway cheminots, treatment of ; Spanish Civil War and

  American Legation, Switzerland

  American Legion, Paris

  American Library in Paris; board ; censorship of authors, German imposed ; Clara de Chambrun, role within ; collection ; Dorothy Reeder and see Reeder, Dorothy; funding ; German attitude towards ; Dr Gros and ; Heinzen article on ; Jewish policy ; prisoners of war, lends books to ; re-opens ; salaries ; staff ; supply of publications ; Sylvia Beach joins board of ; trustees

  American Mercury

  American Radiator Company

  American Red Cross

  American Relief Service

  American Society for French Medical and Civilian Aid

  American Volunteer Ambulance Corps (AVAC)

  Americans in France: A Directory

  American-Scandinavian Field Hospital

  Andermo, Hemming

  Anderson, Charles

  Anderson, Margaret

  Anderson, Sherwood

  Anglo-Iranian Oil

  Antheil, George

  Apollinaire, Guillaume

  Appell, Paul

  Aragon, Louis

  Arc de Triomphe

  Arletty

  Asselin, Gilbert

  Assemblée Nationale

  Associated Press

  Auden, W. H.

  Auschwitz

  Ausweis (travel pass)

  Awakening from History (Taylor)

  Bader, Major Roger

  Bagnall, Alfred

  Baker, Josephine

  banks, American

  Baratte, Yvonne

  Barnacle, Nora

  Barnes, Maynard

  Baudoin, Paul

  BBC

  Beach, Cyprian,

  Beach, Eleanor Orbison

  Beach, ‘Holly’ (Mary Hollingsworth Morris)

  Beach, Reverend Sylvester

  Beach, Sylvia; Adrienne Monnier, relationship with see Monnier, Adrienne; American pilots, visits shot down ; appearance ; armistice and ; arrives in Paris ; ‘bunnies’ , ; childhood ; collaborators literary circle and , ; death ; Edward Gordon Craig, lobbies for release of ; family ; fight for liberation of Paris, observes ; finances ; First World War ; food shortages ; German army entering Paris, watches ; German soldiers in Paris, experience of ; health ; Hemingway and ; imprisonment ; Jewish friends ; Joyce and ; Knight of the Legion of Honour ; 1930s, life in ; outbreak of war and ; Paul Valéry, friendship with; post-war life ; reasons for staying in Paris ; release from prison camp ; Shakespeare and Company see Shakespeare and Company; US, visits 1936 ; writers, relationships with see also under individual writer name

  Beaverbrook, Lord

  Becat, Paul-Emile

  Becat, Rinette

  Bechet, Sidney

  Beck, Colonel-General Ludwig

  Bedaux, Blanche de Kressier Allen

  Bedaux, Charles; Abadan refinery, attempts to save ; arrest and imprisonment ; ‘B’ unit ; burial ; businesses ; character ; Château de Candé and ; citizenship, American , ; death ; ‘equivalism’ ; family ; French Foreign Legion ; French intelligence services and ; French military defeat, depressed by ; Friedrich von Ledebur and; German peace camp and ; health ; house arrest ; Jewish friends, aides ; Joseph von Ledebur and ; Kenadsa coal mines and ; Laval and ; marriages see also Bedaux, Fern; mistresses ; Murphy and ; Nazis, relations with ; nervous breakdown ; New York, first arrives in ; North African pipeline ; Pétain and ; phony war and 4; politics, interest in ; release from prison ; reputation after death ; son, relationship with see also Bedaux, Charles Emile; Trans-Sahara Railway project ; treason, charged with ; US interest in activities ; US, return to ; wealth ; Windsor’s, relationship with ; Weygand, relays offer of premiership to ; youth

  Bedaux, Charles Emile

  Bedaux, Fern

  Bedaux, Gaston

  Bedell-Smith, General Walter

  Beekman, Dean Frederick Warren

  Benét, Stephen Vincent

  Benjamin, Walter

  Bennett, James Gordon

  Benoist-Méchin, Jacques

  Berg, Mary

  Berge, General Wendell

  Bergson, Henri

  Bernard, Jacques

  ‘Bernhard List’

  Bernheim, Françoise

  Bernhuber, Colonel,

  Besançon

  Bibliothèque Nationale

  Biddle, General Francis

  Biddle, Jr, Anthony Drexel

  Bidou, Henri

  Billin, Maude Evelyn

  Bishop, Ogden

  Blanchard, Elsa

  Blanchard, Simone

  Blum, Léon

  Bock, Clemence

  Bois de Boulogne

  Bonhoeffer, Pastor Dietrich

  Bonnard, Abel

  Bonnet, Georges

  Bonsergent, Jacques

  Boothe, Clare

  Boucher, Victor

  Bouffet, René

  Boulanger, Nadia

  Bouloumié, Louis

  Bove, Dr Charles

  Brasillach, Robert

  Breton, André

  Briggs, Arthur

  Briggs, Carlotta Welles

  Briggs, Frank

  Briggs, Jim

  Brinon, Comte Fernand de

  Brinon, Lisette de

  Britain: Battle of France, role in; declares war on Germany ; in North Africa and Middle East ; prisoners of war ; RAF see RAF; René de Chambrun, attitudes towards ; Saint-Nazaire, raid on ; US military aid to ; V-1 threat to ; Vichy and

  British Expeditionary Force (BEF)

  Brockere, Suzanne de

  Brosse, Maurice de

  Bruller, Jean

  Bruno, Dr Alexander

  Bullard, Eugene

  Bullard, Jacqueline

  Bullard, Lolita

  Bullard, Marcelle

  Bullard, William

  Bullard’s Athletic Club

  Bullitt, (neé Bryant), Louise


  Bullitt, Anne

  Bullitt, Orville

  Bullitt, William; advises Americans to leave Paris ; Ambassador to Soviet Union ; character ; Château de Candé, rents part of ; death ; family ; First World War ; France’s senior politicians, closeness to ; French army, joins; Jacques Simon, aides the release of ; Jewish friends, attempts to aide ; leaves France ; leaves Paris ; mayor of Paris, unofficial ; Nazis, relationship with ; persuades Germans not to destroy Paris ; phony war and 4; refusal to leave Paris ; René de Chambrun and ; returns to liberated American Embassy in Paris ; Roosevelt, relationship with ; Thierry de Martel and ; Vichy government and

  Burling, John L.

  Burton, G. O.

  Bussière, Amédéé

  Butcher, Commander Harry C.

  Cadman, Lord

  Café de la Paix

  Caillette, André

  Cain, Julien

  Cameron, Isabella see Waite, Isabella Cameron

  Camp, Ruth

  Camperfeld, Erich Posch-Pastor von

  Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm

  Cannel, Kathleen

  Carnegie Endowment

  Carnegie Institute

  Carrel, Alexis

  Carter, Benny

  Carter, Bernard S.

  Cassidy, Thomas G.

  Cassou, Jean

  Catholic Church

  Catry, Abbé Joseph de

  CBS Radio

  Chalvron, M. de

  Chambres des Députés

  Chambrun, Adolphe de

  Chambrun, General Aldebert de; abolition of Third Republic, watches ; American Hospital board of trustees, member of ; American Hospital, role in uring occupation ; arrest ; capitulation of German forces, aides ; eased out of hospital job ; family ; First World War ; Lafayette, descendant of ; Laval and ; Le Puy, leaves Paris for ; National City Bank of New York, work for ; occupied Paris, enters for first time ; post-war life ; soldier ; Sumner Jackson, lobbies for release of ; US press rumours of collaboration ; Vichy and

  Chambrun, Count Charles de

  Chambrun, Countess Clara Longworth de, abandons Paris for Puy ; Allies, attitudes towards ; American democracy, low opinion of; American Library of Paris, work for ; armistice, favours early ; arrest ; battle for liberation of Paris, observes ; Chevalier of the Legion of Honour ; de Gaulle, low opinion of ; family see also under individual family member name; First World War ; Franco, attitude towards ; German preparation for Allied invasion of Paris, observes ; Jews, attitude towards ; Laval and Pétain, sympathy with ; Nazis and ; plays, stages ; post-war life ; pre-war life ; Resistance, attitudes towards ; return to occupied Paris ; scholar ; Sylvia Beach and ; The Life and Death of King John, translation of ; US press claim collaboration of ; Vichy and