Secrets and Lies

In the 1960s Carmen Callil visited the psychiatrist Anne Darquier and they forged a close bond, tragically broken when Anne committed suicide. Years later, Carmen discovered that Anne’s father was Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, a Nazi collaborator and a con man who had abandoned his daughter at birth. She tells their story in Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland. Carmen Callil talks to a leading historian of France about the man who sent over seventy thousand French Jews to die in Auschwitz and was never brought to justice.

Carmen Callil is Australian and came to the UK in 1960. She is the founder of Virago Press.

Julian Jackson is Professor of modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of, among others, France: the Dark Years 1940-1944, The Fall of France and De Gaulle.