In July 1987, the "Butcher of Lyon" was sentenced to life in prison by a French court. Four years earlier, the BBC reported ...

Marthe Cohn was barely 25 on April 11, 1945, and Jewish, but, being blond and blue-eyed, she could pass for an Aryan. She was French, from northeastern Alsace, but spoke German fluently. She was a ...

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Cohn moved around Germany for several weeks, executing little subterfuges and dodging close calls. She was posing as a nurse searching desperately for her fiancé, a Nazi soldier.