How Nazi Billionaires Escaped Justice at Nuremberg

Paul Touvier, the only Frenchman convicted of crimes against humanity, was a murderer and also a miserable one. But what made him a particularly sinister character was not his crimes — he was one of the many French who collaborated with the Nazis in the Holocaust — but his escape: for more than four decades he managed to hide in plain sight, protected by ultra-right networks operating in France and within the Catholic Church.

How Nazi Billionaires Escaped Justice at Nuremberg

In August 1945, the Allied powers of France, Great Britain, the United States, and the USSR created the world’s first International Military Tribunal, with the goal of bringing those responsible for the Third Reich’s wartime atrocities to justice. While important political figures like Hermann Göring, Karl Dönitz, and Rudolf Hess were successfully imprisoned or put to death—either by the tribunal itself or, in Göring’s case, by their own hands—t…