The Librarian of Darkness: Bernard Faÿ and the Card Index of Death
He was a celebrated historian, a professor at the Collège de France, and a close friend of Gertrude Stein. Then Bernard Faÿ turned France’s greatest library into a weapon.
In 1940, under the Vichy regime, he built a secret card index of 60,000 Freemasons, seized their headquarters, and fed names to the Germans. Nearly a thousand men were deported. 549 never came home.
This is the story of the elegant intellectual who hunted human beings with fountain pens and filing cabinets—and never showed a trace of remorse.
Host Alexander Lawson uncovers the chilling rise, crimes, and escape of Marie…
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