Register of the Georges Scapini papers
| 1893, October 4 | Born in Paris, France |
| 1914-1918 | Wounded in combat, lost eyesight |
| 1928-1940 | Deputy, National Assembly |
| 1940-1944 | Ambassador to Germany, Chief of the Diplomatic Service for Prisoners of War |
| 1944, December | Arrested by the German authorities, having refused to serve the French government in Sigmaringen, Germany |
| 1945, May | Incarcerated by the French authorities for intelligence with the enemy; released after 10 months |
| 1949 | Tried in absentia; sentenced to 5 years of hard labor |
| 1952 | Tried by a military tribunal; acquitted |
| 1960 | 1929 Translated with an Introduction by Helen Keller |
| 1928, L'apprentissage de la nuit 1928, A Challenge to Darkness | |
| Author, Mission sans Gloire | |
| 1976, March 25 | Died in Cannes, France |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
General 1940-1964
Unidentified undated
Abetz, Otto 1934-1941
Anderson, Paul B. 1941
L'Assistance Publique (Public Relief Administration), Paris 1942
Berthon, André 1953
Borotra, Jean 1976
Bridoux, General 1944
Brinon, Ferdinand de 1941-1944
Brissaud, André
Cabinet du Maréchal Pétain (Office of Marshal Pétain) 1941-1944
Ciret, René and Alice 1942
Consulate of Sweden, Paris undated
Darlan, Admiral 1941
Demaria 1940
Dobler, Jean 1937
Duveau, Maurice 1941
L'Estoile, Maurice de 1952
Eugène, Michel 1941
Fayard, Jean 1938
Le Figaro, Paris 1960
Genevoix, René and Maurice 1970
German Embassy, Paris 1940-1942
Gaumont Raymond, Mrs. I 1940
Gil de Lobo, María Fca. 1971
Giot, J. 1950
Humann, Colonel von 1941-1943
Huntziger, General 1940-1941
Jourdain, M. 1939
Kagen, D. 1940
Lafaye, Louis 1953
Laureux, Marguerite 1950-1975
Laureux, Pierre 1948-1962
Laval, Pierre 1940-1944
Lyautey, Mrs. 1943
Merle, Renée 1946
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, Paris (Ministry of Foreign Relations) 1949-1959
Mouttel, Countess Auguste de 1940
Nosek 1940-1943
Patterson, Jefferson 1940
Pétain, Marshal 1940-1944
Reinecke, General 1940-1943
Renaud, Lévy 1941
Rodhain, Jean 1946-1949
Roehrig 1941-1943
Schleier, Consul General, Paris 1940-1941
Silva, Georges undated
Simon, Paul 1940
Tourneur de Marçay, Georgette Le 1940
Turkey, The Ambassador of, Paris 1946
Weiland, Jean 1940
Mission sans Gloire (Mission without Glory), Paris 1960
Advertisements, reviews
CORRESPONDENCE
Documents (photocopies) - Appendices of Mission sans Gloire
Petite histoire personnelle qui facilite la compréhension d'une période qui s'é tend de 1940 à la fin de la vie, de la mienne tout au moins (Short personal story which helps understand a period of time stretching from 1940 to the end of life, at least of mine) undated
Remarks, National Assembly, Paris, One typewritten copy of his comments on the German reoccupation of Rhenany, reprinted in Le Petit Bleu, Paris March 12, 1936, undated
Speech, Annales Coloniales (Colonial Records), One printed copy of his speech reprinted in the Dépche Coloniale Belge, Bruxelles February 5, 1938, undated
L'Aéciste, Paris August 1970
L'Alerte, Nice 1940-1942
Allemagne, Paris April-May 1949
Algeria
Ambrière, Francis (Charles-Louis Letellier)
Arrivets, Charles
The Aulois affair
Bergery, Gaston
Blum, Léon
Boissarie, André
Brinon, Ferdinand de
Canal Saint-Quentin
Chambrun, Josée Laval de
Chambrun, René de
Churchill, Winston
Comité France-Allemagne (France-Germany Committee) 1934-1938
Le Crapouillot, Paris 1968-1974
Darlan, Admiral
Déat, Marcel
Desouches, Jean
Devaux, Louis
Dewerse, Lucien
Duclos, Jacques
Faure, Paul
Flandin, Pierre-Etienne
France
Colonialism. De la Nation de cent millions d'hommes à l'Empire de cent millions d'ames, Paris undated
Domestic policy
General 1940-1971
Communist party
Le Front de la Paix (The Peace Front)
May 68
Socialist party
Vichy
General
Armistice
Commission (Wiesbaden)
Convention, legal aspects of
High Court of Justice, Paris, trial of Vichy officials 1945
Paxton, Robert O., La France de Vichy, Paris, including reviews and Scapini's remarks 1940-1944 1973
Foreign policy
General 1965-1967
Embassy in Berlin. For bombing of see also CORRESPONDENCE, Laval November 1943
Great Britain 1936-1968
Morocco 1955
Soviet-Union. Treaty of 1935
Vietnàm 1947-1949
History
Garibaldi, Sante
Gaulle, Charles de. See also CORRESPONDENCE, Laureux General file (January 8, 1959)
Newspaper articles
Germany
Foreign policy
General 1938
France 1938-1944
Great Britain 1938-1944
Soviet-Union. Non-aggression pact of 1939
Völkischer Beobachter, Munich April 9/10 1944
Giraud, General Henri-Honoré
Guibert, Lieutenant-Colonel
Herriot, Edouard
Hitler, Adolf
General
Interview with Leni Riefenstahl February 24, 1936
Meeting with Mussolini March 19, 1940
Meeting with Scapini April 15, 1935
Speech at the Reichstag January 30, 1939
International affairs 1938-1960
International Committee of the Red Cross
Chenevière, Jacques, L'Action de la Croix-Rouge pendant la Guerre (The Activity of the Red Cross during the War), Paris June 1946
Meeting with Scapini April 21, 1944
Reports of camp inspections
Isorni, Jacques
Jouhaud, General
La Journée du 6 Février, Georges Imann, Paris 1934
Juin, General Alphonse. See Le Monde et la Vie
Kerillis, Henri de
Korean War
Lattre de Tassigny, Jean de. See Le Monde et la Vie
Laureux, Marguerite - CORRESPONDENCE
General (mostly concerning the Stalag IA Association in Bordeaux, France) 1941
Mrs. Didelet 1942-1943
Laureux, Pierre. See also Ambrière, Francis; Prisoners of war, French, Camps, Oflag XB, friendly society of, Prisoners of war, French, Camps, Stalag IA; Prisoners of war, French, Escapes; Prisoners of war, French, Service Diplomatique des Prisonniers de Guerre; Delegation in Berlin, Accounting; Prisoners of war, French, Service Diplomatique des Prisonniers de Guerre, Delegation in Berlin, Final months and end of Scapini's mission; Prisonners of war, German (in France); Rodhain, Jean; Scapini, Georges, Trial, First 1947-1948 1949
CORRESPONDENCE 1943-1962
File on Bernard, Godard and Hélié
Légion Tricolore (controversy brought up by Le Front des Barbelés
Letters to the editor
Message to the prisoners of war November 23, 1942
Miscellaneous
Notes on the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War
Obituaries January 21, 1974
Trial 1945-1946
Bibliographical notes for Rault, Laureux's lawyer
CORRESPONDENCE
with, or of, his family May-June 1945
Rault 1945-1946
Requests of testimonies, and replies (addressed either to Laureux or Virenque, his lawyer) 1945-1946
Sympathy and congratulations letters 1945-1946
Virenque 1946
Costs
Defense pleas file (including a reply to Durandin's deposition, questions to be asked, etc.)
Investigation
Answer to the Commission's report
Depositions (Charrier, Durandin, Fauchas, Guillaume, Jacomet, Janot, Laureux, Mazet)
Legislation regarding collaboration and national indignity
Memoranda of his activity at Stablack
Miscellaneous
Note by Rault for the examining magistrate
Officer candidates file (including CORRESPONDENCE with Janot and Jacomet)
Press accounts
Report to the Minister of War September 7, 1945
Testimonies (letters sent to Virenque)
Verdict
Laval, Pierre
Légion des Volontaires Français (Legion of French Volunteers)
Lunebourg - Massacre of nearly 250 prisoners of war, mostly French
Man, Henri de
Marxism
Mauriac, François
Minute, Paris 1968
Mitterrand, François
Le Monde et la Vie, Paris February 1965 March 1965
Mussolini, Benito
Nuremberg trial
General
Keitel (Scapini's testimony)
Reinecke (Scapini's testimony)
L'Opinion Indépendante du Sud-Ouest, Agen 1963-1974
Paris Match, Paris April 1966
Pétain, Philippe
General
Funeral oration by the Cardinal Segura, Spain August 8, 1951
Le Maréchal, Paris 1965-1974
Messages
Trial - Revision
Trips through France
Prisoners of war, French (in Germany)
Camps
Albums and souvenirs given to Scapini
Cultural activities
Education
Education
Food distribution
Friendly societies
Inspections - Reports
General
Oflags (officers' camps)
Stalags (troups' camps), including Frontstalags
Maps of camp locations and miscellaneous figures and statistics
Medical and sanitary questions
Oflag XB
Friendly society of
Life in
Press. See Cultural activities
Propaganda
Regulations and living conditions
Stalag IA at Stablack (officer candidates' camp)
General
Association in Bordeaux, France
Stalag VC
Le Stalag XVIII C Vous Parle October 1943
Stalags 325 (Rawa-Ruska) and 369 (Kobierczyn)
Centre d'Entr'Aide aux Etudiants Mobilisés et Prisonniers (Relief Center for Mobilized Students and Prisonners)
General
Cahier de Documentation de la France d'Outre-Mer, Paris 1944
Premier Cahier de Documentation des Ingénieurs et Cadres, Paris 1942
Chaplaincy
Commissariat au Reclassement des Prisonniers de Guerre Rapatriés (Commissioner's Office for the Reemployment of the Repatriated Prisoners of war)
Escapes
Families in France
Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War
Bretonnière, Maurice, L'Application de la Convention de Genève aux Prisonniers Français en Allemagne durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, Paris, (thesis) May 21, 1949
Text July 27, 1929
Guide du Prisonnier, Paris November 1943
Hommes de Confiance (Confidence Men). See also Toute la France, Articles published in
General (mostly CORRESPONDENCE with Scapini)
2 albums of letters to Scapini (mostly season's greetings)
Mémento de l'Homme de Confiance, Stalag II D 1943
Jews
Labor
General
Non-commissioned officers
Officers
in war factories, including protection against aerial bombings
Letters addressed to Scapini 1940-1943
Magazines
Ministère des Prisonniers, Déportés et Réfugiés (Ministry of Prisoners, Deported and Refugees)
General
Bilan d'un Effort, Paris 1945
Mouvement National des Prisonniers de Guerre et des Déportés. Organisation de la Résistance Nationale (National Movement of the Prisoners of War and Deported. Organization of the National Resistance)
Officiers-Conseils (Counsel Officers). See also Desouches, Jean
Protocole signed between France and Germany regarding prisoners of war November 16, 1940
Red Cross
Release of prisoners
General
German file
Reception in France
Requests addressed to Scapini (mostly from families). See also Service Diplomatique des Prisonniers de Guerre, File of cases to examine
General
on health and humanitarian grounds
Service Diplomatique des Prisonniers de Guerre (Diplomatic Service for Prisoners of War)
Administration
Delegation in Berlin
Accounting - Reports of Laureux
Final months and end of Scapini's mission
Judicial Department
Meetings
with the Oberkommando of the Wehrmacht 1940-1944
Paris Bureau
Desbons (head) - Report
General file
Intervention - Nominative list
Medical Office - Reports 1941-1943
Memoranda 1940-1941
Notes for Scapini for his camp visits 1944
Press releases
General
Répertoire des Communiqués Officiels, 1943
Survey of the negociations between France and Germany on the subject of prisoners of war, under date of May 1, 1942
Vehicles
Statistics
Veterans
General
CORRESPONDENCE with Scapini 1940-1941
Post-war reunions, meetings, congresses, etc.
Prisoners of War, French (in the Soviet Union)
Prisoners of War, French (in Switzerland)
Prisoners of War, German (in France and Berlin)
Radio broadcasts
Religion
Rémy, Colonel
Rivarol, Paris 1961-1967
Rodhain, Jean. See also CORRESPONDENCE, Laureux November 25, 1962
The Scaffa affair
Scapini, Georges
Appointments 1941-1944
Assistance to various individuals. See also CORRESPONDENCE, Abetz; Brinon; Cabinet du Maréchal Pétain; Laval; Nosek; Roehrig; Schleier
General 1940-1944
Financial 1941-1945
to Jews 1941-1947
Deputy, National Assembly
Invitations
Miscellaneous
Trial
First 1949
Appeal
CORRESPONDENCE (mostly requests of testimonies) 1947-1949
Defense memoranda
General
in answer to the report of the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre (Ministry of Veterans and War Victims); report included
Investigation
Commission's report
Depositions. See also Comité France-Allemagne
for the defense
for the prosecution
Scapini
Inventory of documents
Request for a suspension introduced by Lamouche, Scapini's lawyer
Laureux's papers
Press accounts
Proceedings
(the President's statement and Mrs. Scapini's deposition) Dec. 19
(indictment and verdict) Dec. 20
Prosecution's statement
Testimonies
General (mostly letters sent to Lamouche)
Hommes de Confiance and Officiers-Conseils (letters sent to Druon)
Second 1952
CORRESPONDENCE (mostly letters of sympathy and congratulations) 1952
Defense memorandum
Documents (photocopies)
Lamouche's papers
Press accounts
Proccedings July 23-24
Defense
Pleas of lawyers Lamouche and Weil
Witnesses
Indictment
Interrogation of Scapini
Prosecution's witnesses
Verdict
Testimonies (letters sent to Lamouche). See also Garibaldi, Sante
Soviet Union
General
L'U.R.S.S. a son 14e Anniversaire. Faits et Chiffres, Paris 1932
Toute la France, Paris
General
Articles published in
Ukrainians, émigrés
Union des Aveugles de Guerre (Association of the Blind from War) 1941-1976
United States
General
Report of Jefferson Patterson, U.S. Embassy, Berlin 1940
Veterans
General
Comite (Committee 1939-1940) 1939-1940 1941-1943
Parliamentary Group 1939-1940
Weygand, General Maxime. See also Le Monde et la Vie
General file
Letter from Laureux concerning Scapini 1950
Speech given before the officers of the three branches of the army, Dakar October 20, 1940
World War I
World War 1939-1945
Newspapers
Audio-Visual File 1940-1944
Photograph Album fA 1940-1944
Photograph Album fA 1940-1944
Photograph Album fB-fC 1940-1944
1981 Increment
Additional material on French prisoners of war in German camps
Additional material on French prisoners of war in German camps
Additional material on French prisoners of war in German camps