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Nazi-hunter: French minister should resign
Nazi-hunter: French minister should resign FRENCH NAZI-HUNTER Serge Klarsfeld last week called for the resignation of French Budget Minister Maurice Papon, who has been accused of helping deport camps during World War II. Jews, issued the statement alter Le Canard Enchaine, a satirical and investigative weekly, published an article on the budget minister's war-time activities. Papon has called the article "a shameful fraud." In ils Wednesday edition, the weekly published a photostat of a 1943 document requesting police assistance for the transfer of French Jews from a camp near Bordeaux, to one on the outskirts of Paris. The photostat bore the signature of Papon, who was the chief administrator for the regional government of the Bordeaux region from 1942 until France's liberation. Records show that 1,690 Jews from the Bordeaux region that were deported to Nazi concentration camps. They were among the 125,000 French deported during the war. Most never returned. |
