QUISLING FLIGHTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 262, 4 November 1944, Page 7

QUISLING FLIGHTS

GLOOMY PROSPECT

NOT WANTED IN GERMANY

LONDON.

Little collaboration is afforded to collaborators by the fleeing Germans. A number of Vichy officials left that town from the east. On arrival at .Nancy, where they expected to be treated as people of importance, they were kept waiting by their German masters and sent from office to office. Six. Paris Quisling officials asked the at Nancy for transport to Strasbourg. They were laughed at and told they would not be welcome there. They insisted that their lives were in danger, to which the Germans replied that all lives were in danger in war time. The officials appealed to the prefecture but with no result. Some it is said have taken the hint and tried to escape alone into hiding. They are convinced no welcome awaits them in Germany which they have served so faithfully. Laval and other members of the so-called Government of Vichy passed through Nancy on August 18. Darnand, Deat and high-ranking militia also passed through on their way east. No one has much idea what has happened to them since. According to the report, the fleeing quislings had been told they would be looked after in Germany, but. on their arrival in the east they were stopped in their flight and told that another French Government would be formed under the protection of the Germans and that they must stay on French soil.