French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon died. Papon, who worked with German forces occupying France during World War II and oversaw the deportation to Nazi death camps of at least 1,500 of his Jewish countrymen, succumbed Saturday to complications from heart surgery in the Paris region.
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