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Vichy “expert” on Jewish Question Seriously Wounded by French Patriots

August 6, 1944
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George Montandon, described by the German Trans-ocean agency as “a leading French expert on the Jewish question,” has been shot and seriously wounded by French patriots, it was reported here today.

Montandon, who is on the staff of the Vichy Commissariat for Jewish Affairs, and on the faculty of the “Research Institute on the Jewish Question,” was shot in his Paris home by three men who broke into the apartment. His wife was killed during the fracas.

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