KING OF NAZI PARIS

Book number: 92132 Product format: Paperback Author: CHRISTOPHER OTHEN

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Sub-titled 'Henri Lafont and The Gangsters of The French Gestapo', the book is focussed on 1943 when Lafont was one of the most powerful Frenchmen in Nazi-occupied Paris. A petty criminal, a chance encounter in a prison camp led to a life of luxury running a ruthless mob of gangsters who looted the city on behalf of the Nazis, and who recognised Lafont's talent for treachery and deceit. Lafont recruited 'the French Gestapo', a motley band of sadistic grotesques that included famed celebrities, ex-footballers, pimps, murderers, burglars and bank robbers. The gang wore the best clothes, ate at the best restaurants and did whatever they pleased. They lived on the exclusive Rue Lauriston where they mixed with celebrities and Nazi officers, while down in the cellar of their building, the rest of the gang tortured resistance prisoners. The unbalanced Crazy Pete did it for information. Bisexual athlete Violette Morris, with her short hair and men's clothes and love of frail blondes, just liked to watch people in pain. By 1944, the gang ran a paramilitary outfit of Algerians and Moroccan nationalists in the South of France, raping, robbing and murdering the locals under the cover of fighting the resistance. Then the Allies came, and a terrible price had to be paid. An enthralling slice of criminal history. 308pp, paperback, photos.

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ISBN 9781785906596

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