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Legal judgment confirms history's verdict on Vichy
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THE conviction of Maurice Papon in a Bordeaux court for
complicity
in crimes against humanity brings history and the law together in
France.
It is now no longer just historical opinion but a full legal
judgment that the Vichy regime under Marshal Petain and Pierre Laval
was guilty of collaboration with the Nazis in the inhumane
deportation of over 75,000 Jewish men, women and children.
It affirms what the archives testify, that local Vichy officials
like Papon played a significant role in the registration of Jews in
their area, and were implicated in the appalling human suffering of
the forced ...
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