Georges Oltramare, former head of the anti-Semitic National Union Party here and an anti-Jewish broadcaster for the Nazis during the occupation of France, has been placed on trial here on charges of having endangered Swiss neutrality during the war. The charge is based on his editorship of the German-sponsored Paris newspaper “France au Travail.”
Questioned by the court as to whether he had requisitioned a Jewish-owned apartment during his stay in Paris, Oltramare replied that he had “only taken back what a Jew had obtained from others.”
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