Word: henriot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regional militia under the Vichy regime. According to testimony at his postwar trial, he aided the Gestapo in hunting down Resistance fighters and Jews. He personally commanded an execution squad in an operation against partisans. Once, as a reprisal for the killing of a Vichy Minister of Propaganda, Philippe Henriot, Touvier took seven Jewish shopkeepers as hostages and had them shot...