84 Avenue Foch 84 Avenue Foch 84 Avenue Foch () was the Parisian headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst, the counter-intelligence branch of the SS during the German occupation of Paris in World War II. The Avenue Foch is a wide residential boulevard in the 16th arrondissement that connects the Arc de Triomphe with the Porte Dauphine. During the German occupation of northern France, the buildings at numbers 82 and 86 - either side of 84 - were also commandeered by the German occupation forces. Number 84 was used for the interrogation of allied SOE agents captured in France. Prisoners were regularly brought to the
Avenue Foch of the First World War, who died in that year. During the Second World War, the headquarters of the Gestapo was located for a time at number 72, and the office of Section IV B4 of the Gestapo, the Juden Referat, which was responsible for the arrest and deportation of French Jews to the concentration camps, had its office at 31 bis Avenue Foch. The street was nicknamed « avenue Boche » by the Parisians ("Boche" being a slang word for "German"). The gardens of Avenue Foch occupy a space of 6.62 hectares, in the space 1200 meters long and