Marcheret Deu, who in July, 1944, denounced leaders the Jewish resistance organization "Combat" to the Gestapo, was sentenced to death today by a Seine court. Most of the Jewish resistance leaders were subsequently de-parted and executed.
Deu succeeded in winning the confidence of the resistance leaders by posing a British intelligence agent. Two of the Jews–Rabbis L. Kapel and R. Lazarus–##naged to escape from the train carrying them to death centers in Poland and later returned to France to denounce Deu to the French authorities.
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