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category: World War II & Nazi Era
summary: Nicolas Glencross was a British-born French priest who was the uncle of Peter
  Glencross, the commercial agent for John Stamford's Spartacus International responsible
  for turning the Elm Guest House into a Club Spartacus spa bath.
tags:
- Person
- WW2
- Nazi
---

Nicolas Glencross was a British-born French priest who was the uncle of [Peter Glencross](/people/peter-glencross/), the commercial agent for [John Stamford](/people/john-stamford/)'s [Spartacus International](/organizations/spartacus-international/) responsible for turning the [Elm Guest House](/organizations/elm-guest-house/) into a Club Spartacus spa bath. Nicolas Glencross was arrested in 1989 during an investigation into [Michel Caignet](/people/michel-caignet/) and his [Toro Bravo](/organizations/toro-bravo/) associates for using his rectory in the French commune of Saint-Leger-des-Vignes to take softcore child pornography photographs of the type Caignet had published in [Gaie France](/organizations/gaie-france/).[^1]

Glencross was politically connected to the French Presidential Palace. President Francois Mitterrand had sent his most trusted advisor, Hubert Vedrine, to live at Glencross's parish to help establish him as a municipal candidate in Saint-Leger-des-Vignes and kickstart his political career. The connection between Nicolas Glencross and the Toro Bravo neo-Nazi pornographers was through Pastor [Joseph Douce](/people/joseph-douce/). After Glencross was charged in early July 1990, a bookstore operated by Douce called Autres cultures was placed under surveillance to discover possible links with pedophile networks, in particular with a network based in Holland.[^1]

[^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). *Eye of the Chickenhawk*. United States: Thehotstar.