Das erste Pariser Tagebuch, Paris, 18 September 1942 (Werke, Stuttgart: Klett Verlag, n.d., II, 399).
2.
Das erste Pariser Tagebuch, Paris, 7 Juni 1942 (Werke, II, 351).
3.
Das erste Pariser Tagebuch, Paris, 18 Juli 1942 (Werke, II, 363).
4.
This statement is based on a comment made by Professor Gilbert Gadoffre, himself a prominent member of the Resistance movement, on the occasion of a heated discussion after a paper on Jünger at a conference at Loches in the early Sixties.
5.
Das erste Pariser Tagebuch, Paris, 6 April 1941 (Werke, II, 240).
6.
Fernand de Brinon: b.1885. Started as a journalist. Strongly Germanophile and pro-Hitler, he founded in 1935, with Otto Abetz (future German ambassador to occupied France) the Comité France-Allemagne. In 1940, he was appointed Vichy ambassador to the Occupied Zone. Took a strong collaborationist line. Escaped to Germany in August 1944, and attempted to form a government in exile with Déat, Darnand and Luchaire. Arrested, tried in 1947, and shot.
7.
Das erste Pariser Tagebuch, Paris, 8 Oktober 1941 (Werke, II, 270).
8.
Ibid., same date (Werke, II, 271).
9.
Ibid., same date (Werke, II, 270).
10.
Ibid., 7 Januar 1942 (Werke, II, 298).
11.
Ibid., 4 Dezember 1941 (Werke, II, 291).
12.
Das zweite Pariser Tagebuch, 4 April 1943 (Werke, III, 36).
13.
Das erste Pariser Tagebuch, 22 Juli 1942 (Werke, II 365) (Ravaillac was the assassin who killed Henri IV in 1610).
14.
Ibid., 19 Juli 1942 and 2 August 1942 (Werke, II, 363, 373).
15.
Das zweite Pariser Tagebuch, Paris, 23 Februar 1943 (Werke, III, 13).
16.
Ibid., 4 Januar 1944 (Werke, III, 216).
17.
Ibid., 10 Mai 1943 (Werke, III, 70).
18.
Das erste Pariser Tagebuch, Vincennes, 30 Mai 1941 (Werke, II 256).
19.
Das zweite Pariser Tagebuch, Paris, 7 August 1943 (Werke, III, 122).
20.
Ibid., Paris, 8 August 1944 (Werke, III, 303).
21.
Das erste Pariser Tagebuch, 29 April 1941 (Werke, II, 245).
22.
E.g., the cordial handshake given to him by a man in the crowd on Bastille Day (14 Juli 1941) (Werke, II, 269); the relationships he has with various Parisian women; his friendly relationships with various French families on his arrival in France; etc.
23.
Das zweite Pariser Tagebuch, 18 April 1943 (Werke, III, 46).
Das zweite Pariser Tagebuch, 11 März 1943 (Werke, III, 20).
26.
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie, (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979), 647.
27.
The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1982), 227 (Letter to Nancy Mitford, Maundy Thursday (18 April) 1946).
28.
Das zweite Pariser Tagebuch, 10 August 1944. (Werke, III, 304).
29.
Das erste Pariser Tagebuch, 15 Oktober 1941 (Werke, II, 274).
30.
See, e.g., Cocteau's conversation in a little cellar night-club in the Rue de Montpensier on 10 January 1942, and 'bei Madame Boudot-Lamotte' (Gallimard's secretary) on 1 February 1942, etc. (Werke, II, 300, 311).
31.
Das erste Pariser Tagebuch, 15 Oktober 1941, 7 Januar 1942, 17 Februar 1942. (Werke, II, 273, 299, 318).
32.
Das zweite Pariser Tagebuch, 27 April 1943 (Werke, III, 55-6).
33.
Pariser Tagebücher, passim.
34.
Drieu la Rochelle, Journal, 19/4/44, quoted in Frédéric Grover, Drieu la Rochelle (Paris: Gallimard, 1962), 201.
35.
Das erste Pariser Tagebuch, 11 Oktober 1941 (Werke, II, 271).
36.
Ibid., 28 März 1942, (II, 336).
37.
Das zweite Pariser Tagebuch, 13 Juli 1943 (Werke, III, 102).
38.
Ibid., 16 November 1943 (Werke, III, 196).
39.
Das erste Pariser Tagebuch, 8 Februar 1942 (Werke, II, 315-6).
40.
But one cannot be sure; Céline appears under his own name elsewhere in the diaries.
41.
Das erste Pariser Tagebuch, 7 Dezember 1941 (Werke, II, 292).
42.
Ibid. (Werke, II, 292).
43.
Das zweite Pariser Tagebuch, 27 April 1943 (Werke, III, 56). Abel Bonnard (1883-1968) was a writer and journalist who was prominent on the French Right in the inter-war period. Minister of Education for Vichy from April 1942 to the Liberation, he was also a prominent racist who welcomed the wearing of the Yellow Star and was a member of the Comité d'Épuration de la Race Française, and, along with such men as Benoist-Méchin, involved in the organization of the Legion of Volunteers against Bolshevism. He fled to Germany, and then Spain, in 1944, and was condemned to death in absentia.
44.
Ibid., 31 August 1943 (III, 143).
45.
Das erste Pariser Tagebuch, 9 September 1942 (Werke, II, 391). Jacques Benoist-Méchin (1901-1983) had been an enthusiast for rapprochement with Germany in the inter-war period. A member of Doriot's Parti Populaire Français, he became a minister under Darlan in 1941, Secretary of State involved in Franco-German negotiations. He resigned from the Government in September 1942 (just after this meeting with Jünger), and in 1942-3 was involved in the organization of what eventually became the Légion des Volontaires Français contre le Bolchévisme. After the war, he was sentenced to death (commuted to life imprisonment, and amnestied in 1953).
46.
Marcel Déat (1894-1955), a prominent Socialist in the immediate post-war years, split off (with Marquet and others) from the SFIO in 1933, and headed a group of 'néo-socialistes'. A prominent pacifist in the pre-war years, and a proponent of an authoritarian Socialist state. After the Fall of France, he became one of the leading and most violent Paris collaborators, keen to incorporate France in the New Order for Europe. A member of the Amis des Waffen-SS and of the Milice. Violently anti-Vichy, he finally became a minister, in March 1944, in the last Vichy government, in which, under German pressure, the influence of the Paris collaborators was paramount. Fled to Germany in August 1944, and participated in Brinon's government in exile. Escaped to Italy in 1945, was condemned to death in absentia, but lived in secrecy in a Turin convent until his death in 1955.
47.
Das zweite Pariser Tagebuch, 5 Juli 1943 (Werke, III, 97).
48.
The present writer is undertaking such a study, which will appear elsewhere.
49.
The first example of this being his surprise at the look of hatred in a shop-girl's eyes as she looks at him in uniform (18 August 1942) (Werke, II, 384).
50.
Das zweite Pariser Tagebuch, 6 Juli 1944 (Werke, III, 294).
