ABSTRACT
Like all those who left Camaret on 16 December 1940 on L’Émigrant, Jean Le Roux believed he had made a genuine escape. Indeed, the citation drafted by Alaterre after the war when Le Roux was awarded the Légion d’Honneur began with the words ‘Evade de France dans des conditions périlleuses en décembre 1940, le Charge de Mission de Première Classe Le Roux Jean…’1 But one day, after the war, Le Roux was invited by a police inspector of the DST (Direction de Surveillance du Territoire), the French counterintelligence service, to hear what one of their prisoners, Alois Gross, had to say. Throughout the Occupation, Gross had worked for successive heads of the Abwehr for western France.
