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71. Ibid., Note for the French delegation at Wiesbaden, 3 Feb 1942; note from Direction des Services de l’Armistice to French delegation, 3 June 1942; Secrétariat à l’Aviation, ‘Obscurissement de la zone non occupée’, 6 Aug 1942.

72. Ibid., memorandum of the German Armistice Commission to the French delegation, 27 Nov 1941, 1.

73. BA-MA, RL7/141, Intelligence Report, Air Fleet 3, ‘Aufbau der französischen Heimatluftverteidigung’, 1 May 1943; Intelligence Report, Air Fleet 3, 1 Aug 1943.

74. SHAA, 3D/44/Dossier 1, SGDA, CoS to the Interior Ministry, 5 June 1943, encl. memorandum from Air Fleet 3, 16 Feb 1943; Direction de la Défense Aérienne to SGDA, Bureau C, 24 June 1943.

75. BA-MA, RL7/141, Intelligence Report, Air Fleet 3, 1 May 1943; SGDA to Secrétariat Générale à la Défense Terrestre, 27 Apr 1943.

76. SHAA, 3D/279/Dossier 2, Commandant de Groupe de SAP, Lyon, 20 Feb 1943; Dossier 1, Defence Secretary to Minister of Industrial Production, ‘Service d’alerte’, 1 Oct 1943; SGDA, Bureau A, ‘Recapitulation des effectifs des formations de SAP’, 13 Sept 1943; SGDA to Director of Air Services, Northern Zone, 20 Sept 1943. The main centres in the south were at Lyon, Montpellier, Marseille, Limoges and Toulouse; in the north at Paris, Tours, Dijon, Bordeaux and Reims.

77. SHAA, 3D/43/Dossier 1, Plenipotentiary Air Fleet 3 to SGDA, 20 Aug 1943; 3D/44/Dossier 1, Plenipotentiary Air Fleet 3 to SGDA, 4 July 1943.

78. Baldoli, Knapp, Forgotten Blitzes, 92–3.

79. SHAA, 3D/44/Dossier 1, SGDA to Air Fleet 3, 20 Mar 1944; ‘Formations et effectifs réels, Défense Passive’, 15 Jan 1944; Ministry of Interior, ‘Instruction: Service de protection’, 26 Apr 1944.

80. BA-MA, RL7/141, Plenipotentiary of Air Fleet 3, ‘Tätigkeitsbericht 1.2–15.3.1944’, 19 Mar 1944; SHAA, 3D/44/Dossier 1, SGDA to Plenipotentiary Air Fleet 3, 20 Mar 1944.

81. BA-MA, RL13/24, Kriegstagebuch [War Diary] of LS-Abt. 34, entries for 15, 16 and 29–30 Jan 1943; SHAA, 3D/322/Dossier 1, ‘Bombardement de l’Arsenal et de la ville de Lorient’, May 1944, 4–5, 8.

82. Michael Schmiedel, ‘Les Allemands et la défense passive en France: le cas de Nantes’, in Michèle Battesti, Patrick Facon (eds), Les bombardements alliés sur la France durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale: Stratégies, bilans matériels et humains (Vincennes: 2009), 53–5.

83. BN, Bulletin de Renseignements, Oct 1943, ‘L’Oeuvre accomplice par le Service Municipal de la ville de Nantes’.

84. Julia Torrie, ‘For Their Own Good’: Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939–1945 (New York: 2010), 115–17.

85. Ibid., 125–7.

86. SHAA, 3D/44/Dossier 1, SIPEG to Directorate of Passive Defence, 26 Jan 1944; Pierre Laval to all ministries, 4 Feb 1944, 1.

87. Michael Schmiedel, ‘Orchestrated Solidarity: The Allied Air War in France and the Development of Local and State-Organised Solidarity Movements’, in Baldoli, Knapp, Overy (eds), Bombing, States and Peoples, 207–11.

88. Schmiedel, ‘Orchestrated Solidarity’, 211–13; Torrie, ‘For Their Own Good’, 153–4; Baldoli, Knapp, Forgotten Blitzes, 150–51.

89. SHAA, 3D/44/ Dossier 1, Laval to all ministers, 4 Feb 1944, 1–2, 5; SIPEG to Directorate of Passive Defence, 26 Jan 1944.

90. Ibid., Laval to all ministers, 2–3; Torrie, ‘For Their Own Good’, 159; Baldoli, Knapp, Forgotten Blitzes, 153–4.

91. Olivier Dumoulin, ‘A Comparative Approach to Newsreels and Bombing in the Second World War: Britain, France and Germany’, in Baldoli, Knapp, Overy (eds), Bombing, States and Peoples, 302–3; Baldoli, Knapp, Forgotten Blitzes, 118–19.

92. Lindsey Dodd, ‘ “Relieving Sorrow and Misfortune”? State, Charity, Ideology and Aid in Bombed-out France, 1940–1944’, in Baldoli, Knapp, Overy (eds), Bombing, States and Peoples, 83–5.

93. Ibid., 80–81, 86–7.

94. Torrie, ‘For Their Own Good’, 135–7.

95. Stenton, Radio London and Resistance, 110.

96. TNA, FO 898/457, PWE, ‘Annual Dissemination of Leaflets by Aircraft and Balloon 1939–1945’.

97. LC, Spaatz papers, Box 157, memorandum, CoS of Eighth Air Force, 11 Aug 1942; USAAF Adjutant-General to commander of Eighth Air Force, 25 Sept 1943.

98. Ibid., Box 157, Frank Kaufman, Chief (Leaflet Section) PWB to Robert Bruce Lockhart (PWE), 22 Apr 1944, ‘Leaflet Production and Dissemination Program between now and D-Day’; Political Warfare Division (SHAEF), ‘The Leaflet Propaganda Front’, 19 June 1944, 3.

99. Philippe Boiry, Paris sous les bombes: Auteuil septembre 1943 (Paris: 2000), 37–8.

100. TNA, AIR 40/1720, MAAF Intelligence Division Report, 30 May 1944, 1, 8. See too Kitson, ‘Criminals or Liberators?’, 285–8.