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BARRY especially ironic, taking into account Johnson’s account, including his failure to report the assertion that René Lévesque, in later life, when official ceremony of surrender of Dachau by In a chapter from a forthcoming book by caught making contradictory descriptions of an SS officer to a U.S. general, and the fact Gatineau-based author William Johnson, “Pit his wartime experiences, “would claim a failure that some American soldiers committed Bill” – as he was nicknamed because of his of memory because of the long lapse of time,” war atrocities when they lined up and shot pointed attacks on Quebec separatists – takes he writes. disarmed SS guards who had surrendered. aim at the credibility of wartime claims made by René Lévesque – the Quebec sovereignty “Lévesque’s accounts, dramatic as they are, Perhaps more troubling, Johnson cites movement’s most sacred idol. have never been scrutinized in detail or veri- AP journalist Howard Cowan’s report fied against the accounts left by other journal- in which Cowan names four newsmen, ‘Fabricated stories’ ists, military officers and other participants including three Americans and Belgian contemporary to the events. His stories were “Much was written and spoken publicly about reporter Paul-Michel-Gabriel Lévy, as simply taken as fact because the illustrious René Quebec’s most memorable premier,” Johnson accompanying U.S. Brigadier General Lévesque said so.” said in an e-mailed comment on the subject of Henning Linden on a tour of the Dachau his latest work. “However, one constant char- concentration camp that day. “Lévesque was Various sources cited not one of them,” claims Johnson. acter trait of Lévesque – his propensity to tell While noting that Lévesque’s presence at fabricated stories in order to magnify himself Dachau and his description of what he saw Says Lévesque never met – was entirely ignored.” “is perhaps the most cited event of his life,” he A long-time political columnist for The Globe examines accounts from a multitude of sources Göring and Mail and The Gazette and author of several Author and journalist William Johnson He makes similar allegations about other claims that former Quebec Premier – including reporters and military officials who works attacking Quebec nationalism, Johnson were present at Dachau, journalists who inter- experiences Lévesque claimed to have had René Lévesque had a “propensity to tell alleges the former Premier and founding leader viewed Lévesque years later, and Lévesque’s at the end of WWII. They include a chance of the Parti Québécois didn’t tell the truth about fabricated stories.” own biographer. meeting with German Lutwaffe commander-in- chief Hermann Göring (“His encounters with his experiences at the end of World War II when As recently as last week, Péquistes were sing- He finds inconsistencies between Lévesque’s Göring are fictitious,” Johnson maintains), and he was a U.S. Army correspondent in Europe. ing René Lévesque’s praises on the occasion account of Dachau – such as the number of Nazi th Lévesque’s claim to have seen the corpse of of the 30 anniversary of his death on Nov. 1 SS guards on duty at the concentration camp executed Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini ‘Not there at Dachau’ 1987. In a piece published in the op-ed section – and the facts as reported by the Associated alongside his mistress. Regarding one of Lévesque’s most famous of Le Devoir on Nov. 17, former PQ cabinet Press, for example. While most news reports exploits – his arrival with the Americans at minister Yves L. Duhaime referred to Lévesque described hundreds of SS guards still being at According to Johnson, Lévesque’s war the Dachau concentration camp in Germany as “the greatest of all the prime ministers of Dachau as U.S. forces were arriving, Lévesque memoirs place him in two different countries – – Johnson says in his book (a chapter of which Quebec,” as well as “one of the great recognized writes in his memoirs that “the last traces of the Germany and Italy – on the same date: April 29, was obtained by Newsfirst Multimedia) that journalists of his era,” who was “equipped with German garrison had taken to their heels less 1945. “This vagueness about dates and location “dramatically contrasting accounts surely estab- an elephant’s memory.” than a quarter of an hour before.” characterizes his entire recital of his wartime lish beyond a doubt that René Lévesque was not adventures,” states Johnson. there at Dachau on April 29, 1945.” Claimed a failing memory Not among the reporters The latter comment comes off sounding There are also omissions in Lévesque’s MLS: 19688992 MLS: 9782021 CIΤÉ Agence immobilière • Office: 450.975.1840 Excellent Service •Montreal• 4 Plex situated close to all amenities. 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