Word: gestapoes
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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...
...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...
Adolf Hitler boasted that the zeal of French collaborators spared him scarce manpower. Nazi records show 2200 German Gestapo agents were sent to France. Local police helped deport 79,000 Jews...
...former head of the Gestapo at Lyons re-entered France on Feb. 5, 1983. On orders from Minister of Justice Robert Badinter, he was locked in the same Montluc prison where his own victims had been subjected to maltreatment and torture. It is said he spent his first night in the very cell Badinter's father occupied before he was deported to Auschwitz, never to return...
...America, people have stopped believing in the myth that France united to resist the occupying forces. On the contrary, France under Petain fully collaborated with Hitler's Germany. It handed its Jews over to the Nazi executioners -- 76,000 were deported, few came back. French militia competed with the Gestapo for efficiency. French police organized the roundups. Will the nation be forced to remember its sins? Or will its citizens allow themselves to be manipulated by Barbie and Verges, who will certainly try to show that even the Resistance was not blameless? That Jean Moulin, a leader of the Resistance...