Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Serge Klarsfeld, a French Jewish lawyer who as a youngster hid in a closet listening to the Gestapo torture the neighbor's children, argues that sending innocent people to ovens is no common crime...
Government prosecutors, helped by Klarsfeld and others on behalf of victims, seek to disprove Barbie's assertion that he acted only against members of the French Resistance. He denies deporting Jews...
Polls suggest more than half of France will follow the trial closely and perhaps three-quarters of all French people think that Barbie must be judged, however embarrassing the testimony. Elie Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and a Holocaust survivor, echoed the thoughts of many French in a recent television interview: The verdict is not important, Wiesel said, but the events must be brought to light...
Simone Veil, a former French Cabinet minister and Jewish survivor of Auschwitz, agreed that the trial was a last chance for people to assess their emotions and teach their children the past...
...German forces also occupied the free zone. Barbie came with them to direct Gestapo regional headquarters at Lyon. A local French police force and a militia operated with relative independence...