Open AccessThe Trials and Significance of Nazi War Criminals and Collaborators in France
Author(s) -
Gabrielle Marshall
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the general brock university undergraduate journal of history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2371-8048
DOI - 10.26522/tg.v3i0.1685
Subject(s) - nazism , the holocaust , nuremberg trials , german , allowance (engineering) , world war ii , war crime , nazi germany , law , relevance (law) , history , criminology , political science , sociology , engineering , international law , mechanical engineering , archaeology
Following the trials of Nazi war criminals and collaborators that transpired immediately after World War II, decades passed before the trials of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and French collaborators Rene Bousquet and Maurice Papon. While the reason for the delayed trials differed in cause, the relevance of the trials is connected in their allowance for the resurrected testimony of survivors of German occupation and the subsequent holocaust. While the trials of Barbie, Bousquet, and Papon occurred long after the initial wave of post war convictions, their significance is compounded by the emergence of occupation and holocaust survivors that create a legal and historical record of the horrors of the Nazi regime and the function of French collaboration in its execution.