www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50475648
mce-anchorLucette Destouches: Last witness to France's collaborationist regime
By Hugh Schofield
BBC News, Paris
Published
24 November 2019
When a very old woman died in Paris on Friday 8 November, her passing prompted a few paragraphs in the papers.
Lucette Destouches was 107 years old and had been quite a name in years gone by. A dancer and the wife, then widow, of France's most controversial writer of the last century, Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
She was also the last surviving witness of the tragicomic, final days of France's collaborationist regime - days that were lived out not in Vichy but in a bizarre French microstate created in a southern German castle.
Flight of collaborators who backed the Nazis .....
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