Jacques Delarue
Jacques Delarue (* 1919 in Bricquebec ; † September 14, 2014 ) was a French police officer and historian.
Delarue worked for Renault before World War II and then for the Caudron aircraft company . Discharged from the army in 1942 , he worked for the police in Limoges . He was active in the Resistance and imprisoned until 1944.
From 1945 he worked for the special unit of the French Police Direction centrale de la Police judiciaire (DCPJ) and was entrusted with cases of national security, in particular in investigations against the Organization de l'armée secrète (OAS) in the Algerian war , including the assassination attempt on de Gaulle in Petit-Clamart 1962. He became a commissioner in 1962 and retired in 1978.
From the 1960s he was involved in the investigation of crimes under the German occupation in France involved and is the author of several books on this and the Secret State Police (Gestapo) and the OAS. He was an expert witness in the trial of Klaus Barbie and wrote books on executioners and on tattoos on French criminals.
Delarue was in command of the Ordre national du Mérite and an officer in the Legion of Honor .
Fonts
- with Robert Giraud, Robert Doisneau: Les Tatouages du ″ milieu ″ , Ed. la Roulotte, 1950, new edition: Les Oiseaux de Minerve, 1999
- Histoire de la Gestapo , Paris, Fayard 1962, new edition 2008
- Les Policiers français dans la Résistance , CNPACR (Confédération nationale des policiers anciens combattants et résistants), 1964
- Les nazis sont parmi nous , Ed. du pavilion, 1968
- Trafics et crimes sous l'Occupation , Paris, Fayard, 1968, new edition 1993
- Le Métier de bourreau, du Moyen-Âge à nos jours , Paris, Fayard, 1979, 1989
- with Odile Rudelle: L'attentat du Petit-Clamart , Paris, La Documentation Française 1990
- L'OAS contre De Gaulle , Paris, Fayard, 1981, 1994
- with Pierre Assouline, Jean-Pierre Azéma and Philippe Burin: Les Collabos , Hachette 2011
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delarue, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French policeman and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bricquebec |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 2014 |