Maurice Papon, French civil servant (died 2007)

Maurice Papon

French policeman, politician, and Axis collaborator (1910–2007)

Maurice Papon was a French civil servant and Nazi collaborator who was convicted of crimes against humanity committed during the occupation of France. Papon led the police in major prefectures from the 1930s to the 1960s, before he became a Gaullist politician. When he was…