THE BLACK ANGEL OF THE GESTAPO

Who was this dark angel of the Gestapo in Normandy? Marie-Clotilde de Quelles, a young woman aged 22 in 1943, distinguished herself by becoming the mistress of the head of the Sipo-SD branch in Caen, Harald Heyns alias Bernard. By choosing to take a train between Paris and Cherbourg, Marie-Clotilde and Bernard will complement each other to terrorize first the Caennais, then the Calvadosians for several months and send some of them to the death camps. Studying collaboration in Caen and Calvados for more than thirty years, Yves Lecouturier has encountered and re-encountered this character on numerous occasions. Why did the period of the Occupation lead this young girl into such a drift? She would have been content with horizontal collaboration, her name would never have entered history. At most she would have risked being killed at the time of the Liberation or a penalty of national indignity! But Marie-Clotilde, wanting to show her new power, launches herself