Touvier affair
TitelThe Touvier affair
Forfatter
Call number940.53180944/0007
Objektnummer03787e
UdgivelsesstedHanover, New Hampshire, United States
Udgivelsesår
1996
Pagineringpp114-121
MaterialeArticle
SerieContemporary French Culture and Society
ISBN0874517419
NoterArticle from the book ' Memory, the Holocaust, and French justice' pp114-121
Beskrivelse
Discusses the definition of crimes against humanity. The judges in the Touvier case based their verdict on two types of argument, without ever openly contesting the idea of crimes against humanity. The court sought to absolve and even to exonerate Vichy. The judges issued with their ruling a lengthy analysis of French politics during the war