This event is co-sponsored by the Miller Center and the European Caucus, and it is part of the Miller Center's Truth and History Series. The trial of Lyon Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie in 1987 was the first French trial that focused on the Holocaust. This talk will focus on Barbie’s attorney Jacques Vergès, still a celebrated figure on the anti-colonial and anti-Zionist French left. Vergès argued that French Jews had constructed a monster out of Barbie, forging the written evidence against him while hiding evidence of French Jewish...
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