(Uncle) Louis Eschenauer

From just finishing Wine&War, one thing caught my attention.
The negociant firm of LouisEschenauer made big $$'s from sales of Bdx wines to the Germans. (Uncle) Louis Eschenauer collaborated w/ the WeinFureur of Bdx, Heinz Boemer.
After the end of the War (II), Louis was tried & convicted of being a collaborator w/ the Nazis by the De Gaulle government. A company he organized bought several Bdx properties, for a song, of Jewish-owned/confiscated Chateaux. He testified that he bought them to be returned to their rightful owners after the War's end. Seems a bit far-fetched and self-serving to me. He died in 1958.
The records of his trial were locked away and, by French law, from public viewing. They are not accessible until 60 yrs after his death. That would be in 2018.
I wonder if, in 2018, anyone plans to open up those trial records, go thru them w/ a fine tooth-comb, and write a book or a magazine article on what those records reveal?? I think it would make for very interesting reading.
Just a thought.
Tom

Does it really surprise anyone that during the Nazi Occupation of France that a Bordeaux Wine Merchant with German ancestry was able to conduct “business as usually”? For centuries it was wealthy merchants (a great deal of them “foreign”), politicians, professionals (lawyers) that dominated and controlled the Bordeaux wine industry. Because of them, some of the wines of Bordeaux became “prized” among the Kings, aristocrats, the wealthy and “well to do” of other nations and countries. There is a certain “flare” (or as William Echikson in his book “A Bordeaux Wine Revolution- Noble Rot” put it “there is a certain mystic”) in the way the wines from Bordeaux’s classified growths (or “prized” wines) are marketed

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