French collaboration trials from 1943 to 1947: postwar justice

France organized between 1943 and 1947 a series of trials against those responsible for collaboration during Nazi occupation.

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These judicial proceedings constituted a process of national reckoning with crimes and betrayals of the Vichy period.

These judgments established the legal foundations of political and criminal responsibility in postwar France.

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