Accused war criminal Maurice Papon told a French court that the proceedings against him were “grotesque” and “dishonest.” Papon, who stands accused of ordering the arrest for deportation of 1,560 Jews from the southwest city of Bordeaux during World War II, said he was being scapegoated for the behavior of France’s wartime Vichy regime. Death camp survivor Samuel Pisar, who is governor of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, testified against Papon, recounting the actions of other French officials who saved Jews from the Nazi deportations.
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