46685 known as Loi Tendant a la Fermeture des Maisons de Tolerance et au Renforcement de Tolerance et au Renforcement de la Lutte contre le Proxenitisme (popularly known as La Loi Marthe Richard) was passed, which made brothels and pornographic material illegal. Three months later on April 13 the investment went bad after French Law No. He made a major investment in a string of brothels with money belonging to SMERSH.
Then in January 1946 he became the paymaster of the 'Syndicat des Ouvriers d'Alsace' (SODA), a SMERSH controlled trade union. Le Chiffre (AKA 'Herr Nummer', 'The Number', and 'Herr Ziffer') was earliest seen during 1945 as a inmate of the Dachau DP camp in the US Zone of Germany.
In French, le chiffre translates as either 'the figure' (i.e. Le Chiffre is the first major antagonist James Bond encounters after becoming a 00 agent as well as the first agent of SMERSH Bond meets. Le Chiffre, Herr Nummer, The Number, Herr Ziffer
