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Paul Claude Marie Touvier (3 April 1915 – 17 July 1996) was a French Nazi collaborator during World War II in Occupied France. In 1994, he became the first Frenchman ever convicted of crimes against humanity, for his participation in the Holocaust under Vichy France.
Paul Touvier, né le 3 avril 1915 à Saint-Vincent-sur-Jabron ( Basses-Alpes) et mort le 17 juillet 1996 à la prison de Fresnes ( Val-de-Marne ), est un ancien fonctionnaire antisémite et collaborationniste du régime de Vichy.
Jul 18, 1996 · Paul Touvier, 81, was sentenced to life imprisonment in April 1994 for murdering seven Jewish hostages, an act he never denied. He died of prostate cancer. As a senior...
Jul 18, 1996 · Paul Touvier, the only Frenchman to be convicted of war crimes against humanity and for half a century a troubling reminder of his country's ambivalence about World War II, died yesterday at a...
Apr 20, 1994 · Almost 50 years after he ordered the execution of seven Jews while he was serving in a pro-Nazi militia, Paul Touvier today became the first Frenchman to be found guilty of crimes against...
Nov 27, 1992 · Paul Touvier was a collaborator in Vichy France. He was arrested after World War II on charges of treason and collaborating with the enemy and sentenced to death but escaped in 1947 and escaped prosecution for the next 43 years.
On 20 April 1994, in Versailles, France, Paul Touvier was convicted of complicity to commit crimes against humanity for his role in the killing of seven Jews during World War II.
In 1994, after forty-five years in hiding with the help of Catholic institutions, Paul Touvier became the first French citizen to be convicted of crimes against humanity. Born to a fervent Catholic family in Savoy in 1915, Touvier attended religious schools in Chambéry.
Jul 17, 1996 · Paul Claude Marie Touvier (3 April 1915 – 17 July 1996) was a French Nazi collaborator during World War II in Occupied France. In 1994, he became the first Frenchman ever convicted of crimes against humanity, for his participation in the Holocaust under Vichy France.
Jul 19, 1996 · Paul Touvier, the only Frenchman convicted of World War II crimes against humanity, has died after serving two years in prison for the reprisal executions of seven Jews. He was 81.
