- humiliations, ****aults and
detentions of
suspected collaborators,
known as the
épuration sauvage (wild purge). This
period succeeded the
German occupational administration...
- The
épuration légale (French for 'legal purge') was the wave of
official trials that
followed the
Liberation of
France and the fall of the
Vichy regime...
- the
Liberation was
approximately 10,500,
including those killed in the
épuration sauvage",
notably including members and
leaders of the milices. US forces...
-
picture was
first published in Life
magazine and
became iconic of the
épuration sauvage (wild purge)
enacted after the
liberation of
France and the severe...
- aims.
Vichy loyalists were put on
trial by the GPRF in
legal purges (
épuration légale), and a
number were
executed for treason,
among them
Pierre Laval...
-
controversial as a
result of
extortion committed under his
authority during the
épuration sauvage in
Limousin during 1944. Guingouin's father, a
career non-commissioned...
-
themselves into a Klan
against "criminals",
publishing a
program of "social
epuration". In São Paulo, Brazil, the
website of a
group called Imperial Klans of...
- the
French Revolution's
Reign of
Terror (sometimes
referred to as "les
épurations"). The
purges were
largely conducted by the NKVD (People's Commissariat...
-
periods are
distinguished by historians: the
first phase of mob
justice (
épuration sauvage – wild purge):
extrajudicial executions and
shaving of women's...
-
appointed Justice Minister François de
Menthon to lead the
Legal Purge (
Épuration légale) to
punish traitors and to
clear away the
traces of the
Vichy regime...
