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[email protected]. THE HAENNIG-NORDMANN PAPERS: TWO LAWYERS IN OCCUPIED FRANCE Eric Freedman and Richard Weisberg Program in Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York Copyright ©2013 by Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Program in Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies All rights reserved. oP U^7 CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW jr^j JUL 1 6 2014 JOSEPH HAENNIG AND LEON-MAURICE NORDMANN: 20 13 LfWARY Two LAWYERS IN OCCUPIED FRANCE C,> INTRODUCTION This monograph concerns the roles of two lawyers during the tragic drama of the German Occupation of France from 1940 to 1945. On the one hand, loseph Haennig, a Parisian lawyer of Alsatian origin, was a legal commentator of the collaborationist Vichy regime's anti-Jewish legislation, a defender of wartime common law criminals and Resistance participants, and after the war, of collaborators.