Paul Touvier: The Collaborator Who Hid for 45 Years
Dawn, June 29, 1944. Seven Jewish men are lined up against a cemetery wall in Rillieux-la-Pape and executed. The order came from Paul Claude Marie Touvier, head of the Milice intelligence service in Lyon.
For nearly half a century he vanished—protected by monasteries, living under false names, even briefly pardoned by a French president. In 1994 he became the first Frenchman ever convicted of crimes against humanity.
Host Alexander Lawson traces Touvier’s rise in Vichy France, the reprisal killings that sealed his fate, the long years of evasion, and the trial that finally forced France to…
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