The second trial of five former concentration camp guards accused of crime against humanity opened here. The five, accused of crimes against French Jews and non-Jews, were convicted and sentenced to death by a military tribunal in July, 1954, but the verdict was reversed on technical grounds and a new trial was ordered.
The French Academy of Medicine heard a report of the physical effects deportation has on survivors of concentration camps. Survivors of Nazi concentration camps, the report–based on a ten-year study–said, tend to show a lower life expectancy. Of 250,000 Frenchmen and women deported by the Nazis, only 38,000 returned. Of 450 French doctors deported, the report said, only 80 returned, and all were in poor health.
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