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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, 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...
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...
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...
Dec 27, 2018 · 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. At the time of the crime Touvier was an oficer of the Milice, a special military force established to combat the Resistance and other enemies of the Vichy government.
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.
