The judge in the war crimes trial of Maurice Papon scoffed at the defendant’s claim that he did not know the fate awaiting Jewish deportees from wartime France. “What could you have possibly suspected? What could you have imagined was happening to these people?” the judge asked Papon, who stands accused of ordering the arrest of 1,560 Jews, 223 of them children, for deportation to death camps between 1942 and 1944.
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