Pellepoix Acted As Nazi Agent Among French War Prisoners.
Officer Reveals  New severe measures against the Jews in France
are now under discussion between the Nazi occupational
authorities in Parts and the new French Commissioner for Jewish
Affairs, Darquier de Pellepolx, according to reliable
information reaching Free French circles here today.  In a
broadcast last night from London to the people of France, a
French officer, who was interned in Germany in the same war
prisoners’ camp with Pellepoix, stated that Pellepolx was the
first prisoner to be released from the camp since ha was
identified by the Germans as a German agent, who prior to the
outbreak of the war received funds from Germany to conduct anti-
Jewish and pro-Nazi propaganda in France. While a war prisoner,
Pellepoix continued to preach anti-Jewish propaganda among the
French officers la the camp, but cowardly withdrew his anti-
Semitic charges when a Jewish captain who was decorated for
bravery slapped his face, the French officer related in ki