1356 - Notebook of a former French SS member in prison. A handwritten notebook by Pierre Virondeau, a prisoner at the Angers Detention Center, who wrote on June 27, 1948, to the President of the Republic to explain his motivations and the events that led to his incarceration. In it, he recounts his arrival from Algiers in October 1942 as federal secretary of the PPF; he then describes his life in Paris before enlisting as a war correspondent in the French Waffen SS. He completed a six-month assignment on the Eastern Front, where he describes life within that unit until January 28, 1944, when he received orders to report to Berlin to join the war correspondents’ regiment. In May 1945, he voluntarily reported to the military security office of the 5th Panzer Division in Feldkirch and was subsequently imprisoned. Handwritten prison notebook by Pierre Virondeau, dated June 27, 1948, recounting his involvement with the PPF, his service in the French Waffen SS, and his imprisonment.