[ÉPURATION - 1944]. - Lot 150

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[ÉPURATION - 1944]. L.A.S. from Roger Dutruch's father-in-law, to Georges Harlé, mayor of the commune of Etrechy. Etrechy [Essonne], November 23, 1944. 5 pp. ½ in-8. Very interesting letter after the execution, from Roger Dutruch, prefect of Lozere under the Vichy regime, co-responsible for the repression against the Bir-Hakeim maquis. "[...] While the awful drama unfolded far from us, of which my son-in-law, whom I loved like a son, was the victim, my wife and I knew nothing about it, but we were worried, having received no news of our dear children for more than a month. So when we heard the news of the fatal death, we were overcome with horror and excruciating pain and doubted the reality of such a disaster. ...] My poor son-in-law was shot by a band of master thieves from the whole department, after having incarcerated him they cowardly murdered him before receiving the petition for mercy that General de Gaulle had sent, thus precipitating the outcome of this horrible drama. My son-in-law, after having prepared himself Christianly for death, showed heroic courage. "His death, my daughter told me, was that of a saint and a hero". Before he died he shouted "Vive la France, je donne ma vie pour le salut de la France" (Long live France, I give my life for the salvation of France). [...] "Executed for intelligence with the enemy"!! What a bloody irony! Everything proves the contrary; but the revolutionary court wanted to suffocate everything and had condemned him in advance as it happened in 1793 [...]....] They wanted to tarnish his memory and dishonour him by claiming that he was intelligent with the enemy; he who hated the Germans with all his heart, who volunteered in 1914, who was awarded the war cross and a fine citation, who was decorated with the Legion of Honour for acts of war, who was wounded at Verdun [...]". Roger Dutruch (1893-1944) prefect of Lozère since 1941, he was a disciplined and faithful executor of the government of Marshal Pétain, especially in
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