Maurice Papon, the former Vichy France official on trial for war crimes, called one of his accusers a “counterfeiter” and questioned the investigation into his role in deporting Jews during the Holocaust. A former French Resistance member testified on behalf of Papon, saying that the French did not know that Jews were being deported to their death.
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