Volume 43, Number 15 · October 3, 1996
Marked Man
By John Gross
The Statement
by Brian Moore
Dutton, 250 pp., $22.95
Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs
edited by Richard J. Golsan
University Press of New England, 217 pp., $17.95 (paper)
In 1943 Paul Touvier joined the Milice, the newly formed paramilitary police force created by the Vichy authorities in order to combat the Resistance. He was quickly appointed one of the organization's senior officers in the Lyon region. In 1994, after numerous legal twists and turns, and almost fifty years as a fugitive from justice, he became the first Frenchman to be convicted of crimes against humanity. More specifically, he was found guilty of ordering the execution of seven prisoners, all of them Jews, as a reprisal for the assassination of Philippe Henriot, the Vichy minister of propaganda. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, and died in a prison hospital this July at the age of eighty-one.
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