Alice Meckert, a French woman, who aided the Gestapo during the war by betraying partisans and Jews, and who was responsible for the death of about 5,000 Jews, was sentenced to hard labor for life by a special court in Marseilles this week-end.
The trial of Professor Henri Labrous, one of France’s most notorious anti-Semitic theoreticians during the German occupation, on charges of having denounced Jews to the Nazis, began before a special court in Paris this week-end. During the occupation, he was head of a Gestapo-created department of “History of Jewry” at the Sorbonne.
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