In July 1987, 38 years ago this week, a Nazi war criminal, the “Butcher of Lyon”, was sentenced to life in prison by a French court for crimes against humanity.
Four years earlier, in 1983, the BBC reported on how France felt about this reckoning with its dark past.
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