FRANCE: The Face of Vichy

Eleven men sat in the prisoners' dock in a narrow Algiers courtroom. They were servants of Vichy—the officers and guards of a concentration camp in North Africa, now indicted and on trial for murder and torture. A. P. Correspondent Relman Morin described them as they looked in the Gaullist courtroom:

"One is a sleek, young officer, at times almost handsome. His expression comes alive with a kind of haunted fury. His black eyes widen. His neck stretches. His head begins to twitch in spasmodic jerks. He looks like a hunted animal. It is a spasm. As it passes, he leans...

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