FRENCH NAZI COLLABORATOR - Maurice Papon is dead

Der Spiegel, Wikipedia and others | February 17, 2007 | Newsflash

[Atlantic Bridge]

He may rot in hell. There is nothing more to say.

[Atlantic Bridge]

Concerning our discussion about capital punishment I have to admit that this guy should have been executed.

[Atlantic Bridge]

Western Europe Ping!

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Good riddance to the scumbag.

Now what about the French who are collaborating with the enemy today?

[Boazo]

Hope it hurt!

[Atlantic Bridge]

Now what about the French who are collaborating with the enemy today?

Collaborating with the enemy is no exclusive attribute of the French. Simply take a look into your own congress.

[Historix]

Say Hi to Stalin and Hitler Shi#bag!!

[Zeon Cowboy]

He is death finally? Well riddances!

[SevenofNine]

GOOD burn in the hell you Frog wimp

[fieldmarshaldj]

I can only hope this misguided soul repented of his evil before he died.

[river rat]

In a sane world, this sonuvabitch would have been executed and his body hung in the public square to feed the birds...during the Liberation of France.

Allowing the bastard to live so long, was an insult to society..

But then, one must realize - we're talking about the French..
The French never did put much value on anyone other than their own sorry asses..

Semper Fi

[California Patriot]

Being responsible for deportations is not necessarily the same as conscious cooperation in the deportees' deaths. We need to drop the hysteria and get some more facts before we froth at the mouth about this.

[Triggerhippie]

He is death finally? Well riddances!

How embarassment... Dealing with titles like that is unpossible.

[Cincinna]

Papon never did recant. In an interview shortly before his death he continued to claim he was the victim of a conspiracy.

The French, having arrested him and tried him, found him guilty, and sentenced him to 10 years in prison. They let him go after only three years.

He died at 96 in his own bed.

[PRePublic]

His "soul" is far uglier than his face.

[Atlantic Bridge]

His "soul" is far uglier than his face.

A real wonder. To outclass his sexy smile seems to be impossible to me.

[Clemenza]

A truly repellent individual. The fact that folks like this get only 10 makes ne doubt the existence of an almighty.

[M. Espinola]

Maurice Papon in 1947

Papon avoided the post-war purge of Vichy Nazi collaborators. even though it was well known Papon as head of the south-western Gironde region of France during the Nazi occupation, he signed effective death warrants for hundreds of Jews by ordering their deportation to concentration camps.

The picture below explains why Vichy Nazi Maurice Papon was not prosecuted as a collaborating war criminal.

General de Gaulle honoured Papon, seen here beside the post-war leader

After the war, Papon moved to Paris as Prefet de Police under General de Gaulle, a post he held until 1968.

At Maurice Papon's death the screams of his Jewish victims tormented him. Papon was most likely also greeted by fellow Vichy traitors, Gestapo officials and many Nazi SS killers - at the gates of Hell!

[GretchenM]

I liked this part of the article.

After Switzerland sent him back to France to serve his prison sentence, he was sent to La Santé jail on October 22, 1999. Papon was also stripped of all his decorations; under French law, people convicted of severe crimes cannot be members of the Legion of Honor.

[GretchenM]

lol