FRANCE: Reckoning

In 1944, with Nazi power crumbling, angry Frenchmen meted out Tommy-gun justice to suspected collaborators. France never announced how many people were killed in those bloody days. This month, the government produced the score: 10,522 Frenchmen were killed in "irregular executions"; only 846 collaborators were executed by the lawful courts.

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