[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.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Good riddance to the scumbag.

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

[Boazo]

Hope it hurt!

[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

[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.

[VOA]

Reference material that (among other principals) does discuss
French culpability in The Holocaust:

http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/

As much as I dislike our leftist Public Broadcasting System, this
was a good documentary (with some good-to-awful panel discussions).

[Androcles]

Let him roast for his crimes!

[Ukiapah Heep]

A French collaborator? No surprise there.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Elected deputy of Cher as candidate of the UDR Gaullist Party in 1968..."

I can only hope Sonny never found out about this.

[Calpernia]

Thanks to Rene Carmille and the Marco Polo Resistance Network, the number of people deported and murdered would have been higher. Rene Carmille thwarted much of Maurice Papon's work. Carmille was torchered for two days before he died.



"No power in the world", he exhorted them, "can stop you from remembering that you are the heirs of those who defended the country of France, from those who stood on the bridge of Bouvines...to those who fought at the Marne. Remember that!

"No power in the world can stop you from remembering that you are the heirs of the Cartesian thought, of the mysticism and the mathematics of Pascal, of the clarity of the writers of the 16th Century, and the perennial accomplishments of the 19th Century thinkers, all this - in France. Remember that!

"No power in the world can stop you from realizing that your institution has furnished the world with [great] thinkers...that freedom of thought has always existed...with rigor and tenacity. Remember that!

"No power in the world can stop you from knowing that the motto inscribed in gold letters on the pavilian: 'For Country, For Knowledge, and For Glory,' and the weighty heritage that constitutes the immense work of your ancestors, if for you a categorical imperative which must guide your path of conduct. Remember that!

"All this is written in your soul, and no one can control your soul, because your soul only belongs to God".

- Rene Carmille
1943, Polytechnic School, Paris

[Calpernia]

Gurs camp as photographed from a water tower. Gurs, France, ca. 1941 - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The Gurs camp was one of the first and largest camps established in prewar France. It was located in the Basque region of southwestern France, just to the south of the village of Gurs. The camp, about 50 miles from the Spanish border, was situated in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains northwest of Oloron-Sainte-Marie.

The French government established the Gurs camp in April 1939, before war with Germany and well before the occupation of France in June 1940. Originally, Gurs served as a detention camp for political refugees and members of the International Brigade fleeing Spain after the Spanish Civil War.

In early 1940, the French government also interned about 4,000 German Jewish refugees as "enemy aliens," along with French resistence leaders who opposed the war with Germany. Gurs fell under the authority of the new collaborationist French government, the Vichy regime.

About 3,000 Jews died in internment camps on French soil. About 1,000 Jews were executed or murdered in France during the Occupation.

[Eva]

Yes, there is more to say, France has never fully emerged from that sad period in their history. The French government is as untrustworthy an ally as they were then. Nothing has changed, they are still self-interested, arrogant, cowards who would sell out their own mothers if it would gain them some status.

[grey_whiskers]

Superficial Resemblance Sarcasm Torpedo^TM ARMED. FIRE!!

Cheers!

[dfwgator]

He lived about 62 years too long.

[Redleg Duke]

A poster child for France.