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René Bousquet (French: [ʁəne buskɛ]; 11 May 1909 – 8 June 1993) was a high-ranking French political appointee who served as secretary general to the Vichy French police from May 1942 to 31 December 1943. For personal heroism, he had become a protégé of prominent officials before the war and had risen rapidly in the government.
René Bousquet, né le 11 mai 1909 à Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) et mort assassiné le 8 juin 1993 à Paris, est un haut fonctionnaire français, collaborateur avec l'occupant nazi pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Jun 15, 2023 · René Bousquet was a key figure in the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, where he oversaw the deportation of thousands of Jews to Nazi death camps. He escaped justice for decades, but was indicted and murdered in 1991.
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Bousquet, Rene. (1909--1993), Chief of the French police during the period of Nazi occupation. Bousquet was responsible for the collaboration of the police in the rounding up of Jews and their dispatch to Drancy and other French transit camps.
Only months before his trial on French charges of crimes against humanity, Rene Bousquet, national police chief in the World War II Vichy government that sent thousands of Jews to Nazi death...
Apr 4, 1991 · Tuesday’s ruling by Judge Albert Moatty of the Paris Court of Appeals follows upon a decision last November that Rene Bousquet, who was acting minister of police during the Vichy regime, would be...
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Jun 9, 1993 · PARIS, JUNE 8 -- Rene Bousquet, the former police chief of the Vichy wartime regime who was accused of crimes against humanity for his role in deporting French Jews to death camps, was shot and...
