France to free Nazi collaborator (VICHY ALERT)

BBC News ^ | September 18, 2002 | BBC News

[MadIvan]

I would feel happier about this if he had expressed some remorse. But as he hasn't, he should have died in prison.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[fivekid]

I have thoughly enjoyed your voice of reason as of late.

If it would not be to much trouble, could you please add me to your ping list?

[MadIvan]

Done, my thanks. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[Alouette]

I would feel happier about this if he had expressed some remorse. But as he hasn't, he should have died in prison.

No, he should have been hanged in 1945. Instead, he enjoyed almost 50 years of long life. I hope they turned up the thermostat in his section of hell.

[MadIvan]

No, he should have been hanged in 1945.

That I can't argue with. However for whatever reason he has survived till now and is now pretty pathetic.

Regards, Ivan

[fivekid]

Thank-you :)

Please keep up the good work! Those of us in the backround thank you!! :)

[metesky]

Pretty simple. The Frogs don't want to pay for the burial.

[Bringbackthedraft]

How come they never went after all those people that sent millions to the gulags? I don't ever recall a trial for any of the former commie butchers.

[SkyPilot]

Ivan,

I was in Colmar France 2 weeks ago. Beautiful place. They have a monument for the Resistance in the center of the centuries old village.

Our guide (twenty-something-French) said "In 1944, it was estimated that 100 in the town were active in the Resistance. In 1946, it jumped to 10,000."

[MadIvan]

Our guide (twenty-something-French) said "In 1944, it was estimated that 100 in the town were active in the Resistance. In 1946, it jumped to 10,000."

A friend of my father's was actually in the Resistance and has the scars to prove it. His contempt for people who claim to have been in the Resistance was palpable. I did once make the social faux pas of mentioning Francois Mitterand in front of him. I didn't know French had that many swear words. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[SkyPilot]

A friend of my father's was actually in the Resistance and has the scars to prove it. His contempt for people who claim to have been in the Resistance was palpable.

Look for this DVD in your history section next time: War Stories. #91847, by HBO Home Video. Perhaps it is listed here.

There is the story of a very brave British officer who was a resistance fighter. I believe his name was George Millar, code name Emil. While this man was out blowing up railroad lines and training Frenchmen who would resist, Charles DeGaule road into France on a white horse after Normady and ordered all of the English resistance agents out of the country.

Ah, gratitude.

[driftless]

There was a show about agents sent into France on The History Channel some time ago. Apparently the life span of these supremely brave people, men and women, was extremely short as most were detected within a matter of weeks of the start of their operations.

[Thane_Banquo]

There is a lot of anti-Semitism in France. He's probably a hero to them.

[Destructor]

"Maurice Papon - a former French police chief imprisoned for his role in sending Jews to Nazi death camps - is to be set free on health grounds."

"A French appeals court ordered the release of Papon, who was jailed in 1999 for complicity in crimes against humanity for the deportation of 1,600 Jews."

The French court promptly surrendered to Papon.

[SkyPilot]

Yes, they were brave. The Nazis used very horrible methods of torture when agents were discovered. These included crushing of the testicles in a mechanical device. They also used to torture women and children in front of men, or within earshot.

Ivan--I believe that is George Millar (the British agent) on the right.

[Mo1]

He returned to France to begin his sentence in October 1999 but wrote a letter to France's justice minister last year saying he felt no "regrets of remorse" for his actions.

Hope he riots in hell

[Mo1]

riots = rots

I need MORE coffee

[July 4th]

serving in La Sante prison in Paris

Apparently the name did nothing for him.

[ohioman]

On the French:

I watched Joan of Arc last night and wondered ....What kind of screwed-up country would turn traitor on one of her most famous heroes...Why of course that would be France. The attitudes of Vichy France have been around since the formation of France.