| French Republic Menaced. / Stavisky | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1511 |
| Catalog #: | 347853 | |
| Clip Number: | 347853-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 006-313-03 | |
| Timecode: | 00:14:05 - 00:14:35 | |
| Location: | France | |
| Year Shot: | 1934 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CRIME: Investigation CRIME: White-Collar / Fraud LAW: Criminal Investigations LOCATIONS/EUROPE: France | |
| Description: | Rolling shaky light in contrast and imagery Serge Alexandre Stavisky pulled off the year’s greatest theft creating biggest scandal in Bayonne France. He stole two-hundred-million franks. This was a financial and political scandal that shook France in 1934. Serge Alexandre Stavisky, a swindler associated with the municipal pawnshop of Bayonne, sold huge quantities of worthless bonds French fascist used the "Stavisky affair" to develop large anti-Jewish riots, in a failed attempt to destroy the government and, with it, the Third Republic, Serge Alexandre Stavisky, a Russian Jew and French financier, had committed sucide or was murdered when accused of bond fraud. The rightists further alleged that Stavisky had been murdered to protect influential persons connected with him. | |
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