The World - News from June 12, 1987
France should be proud of its conduct during the Nazi occupation despite cases of collaboration, a former premier and Resistance leader testified in the trial of former Lyon Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie. “Some people would like to make this the trial of the French,” said Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 72, president of the French National Assembly. “The French conducted themselves honorably and don’t have to be ashamed. . . .” Barbie, 73, accused of arresting, torturing and deporting hundreds of Jews and Resistance members to Nazi death camps, has threatened to reveal the names of traitors within the Resistance.
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