“Madame Giraud, three of her daughters, her mother, another brother and the daughter-in-law of Giraud, were in Vals-les-Bains. I replied that such measures were insufficient and that he must not be surprised if the German police some day reverted to sterner measures, in view of the obvious incompetence of the French police in numerous cases.”
The threat was put into execution. We have already stated that the family of General Giraud were deported.
We submit Document F-717 under Exhibit Number RF-407, Page 149 of your document book: “Paris, 1030 hours, 101, Official Government Telegram, Paris, to the French Delegation of the IMT Nuremberg.”
From this telegram it is evident that 17 persons, members of the family of General Giraud, were deported to Germany. Madame Granger, daughter of General Giraud, aged 32, was arrested without cause in Tunis in April 1943, as well as her four children, aged 2 to 11 years, with their young nurse, and her brother-in-law, M. Granger. The family of General Giraud was also arrested, on 9 October 1943. They were first deported to Berlin, then to Thuringia.
May I ask the forbearance of the Tribunal; the telegraphic style does not lend itself to interpretation, “Sent first to Berlin and then to Thuringia; women and children of M. Granger to Dachau.” (I suppose that we must understand this to mean the wife of M. Granger and the nurse who accompanied her.)
THE PRESIDENT: M. Dubost, what is the document?
M. DUBOST: This is a French official telegram. You have the original before you, Mr. President, “—101—Official State Telegram Paris,” typed on the text of the telegram itself.
THE PRESIDENT: Can we receive a telegram from anybody addressed to the Tribunal?
M. DUBOST: Mr. President, it is not addressed to the Tribunal; it is addressed to the French Delegation. It is an official telegram from the French Government in Paris, “Official State Paris,” and it was transmitted as an official telegram.
THE PRESIDENT: What does “IMT Paris” mean?