Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Verges plans to summon ghosts not only from World War II but also from France's war to keep Algeria, which ended in 1962. A blanket amnesty protects French officers accused of torture in Algeria...
PARIS--The trial of Klaus Barbie, the last Nazi likely to face French judges, which opens today will likely stir again the lingering shame, sorrow and pity which France has sought for decades to forget...
Barbie threatened in a published interview to drag skeletons from closets in his defense. He said he might name some French collaborators "perhaps now enjoying positions of influence in modern France...
...four years ago that Barbie, known as "the Butcher of Lyon," was brought to France from Bolivia. He is accused of crimes against humanity--sending Jews and French Resistance members to death camps...
...France, the question is whether Nazi atrocities are to be underlined in red in French memories or whether, with a passing generation, they will slip into the gray of history...