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Title: Georges Scapini Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1928-1976
Collection number: 78011
Creator:
Scapini, Georges, 1893-1976
Collection Size:
27 manuscript boxes, 2 album boxes
13.1 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, writings, legal documents, printed matter, and photographs, relating to French politics,
French prisoners of war in Germany during World War II, and the trial of Georges Scapini as a Nazi collaborator, 1952
Language:
French.
Collection open for research.
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Literary rights held by Lucie Marie Scapini, Jean-Marie Scapini, and Francois-Marie Scapini
[Identification of item], Georges Scapini Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1978.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Prisoners of war
War crime trials
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists
World War, 1939-1945--France
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons
France
France--Foreign relations--Germany
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945
France--Politics and government--1914-1940
Germany
Germany--Foreign relations--France
Diplomats--France
| 1893, October 4 | Born in Paris, France |
| 1914-1918 | Wounded in combat, lost eyesight |
| 1928-1940 | Deputy, National Assembly |
| 1940-1944 | Ambassador to Germany, Chief of the Diplomatic Service for Prisoners of War |
| 1944, December | Arrested by the German authorities, having refused to serve the French government in Sigmaringen, Germany |
| 1945, May | Incarcerated by the French authorities for intelligence with the enemy; released after 10 months |
| 1949 | Tried in absentia; sentenced to 5 years of hard labor |
| 1952 | Tried by a military tribunal; acquitted |
| 1960 | Author, Mission sans Gloire |
| 1928, L'apprentissage de la nuit 1928, A Challenge to Darkness | |
| 1929 Translated with an Introduction by Helen Keller | |
| 1976, March 25 | Died in Cannes, France |