PARIS, France (AFP) — A historian of the Nazi occupation of France was being sued Wednesday by her own relatives for alleged libel after she promoted her first novel as inspired by her family’s history.
Cecile Desprairies, 68, says her…
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French author sued for libel by her relatives over Nazi ‘collaborator’ family novel
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Man who defaced Holocaust Monument won’t serve more time behind bars
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