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| Contributor | New Jerusalem |
| Last Edited | New Jerusalem Feb 17, 2007 08:05pm |
| Category | Obituary |
| News Date | Feb 17, 2007 08:00pm |
| Description | French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, convicted of sending French Jews to Nazi camps in World War II, has died, aged 96.
He underwent surgery earlier in the week to adjust his pacemaker after being hospitalised with heart problems.
Papon was the second-highest official in France's south-west Bordeaux region during the German wartime occupation.
In 1998, he was jailed for 10 years for helping to send about 1,500 French Jews to Nazi-run death camps during WWII.
Papon never expressed remorse for his wartime actions but was freed in 2002 because of his age, after serving only three years of his sentence, a move which angered Holocaust survivors. |
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