Saturday, December 30, 2017

Pencil sketch of a Naz by Dr K Prabhakar Rao


 JOHN PIAERRE. MOURER. FRENCHA   NAZI.  COLLABORTORImage may contain: 1 person, drawing

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Dr K Prabhakar Rao said...

Jean-Pierre Mourer (August 19, 1897 in Wittring, Moselle – June 10, 1947 in Île Napoléon, Mulhouse) was an Alsatian politician. He was elected to the French National Assembly in 1928, 1932 and 1936.He. Belonged to communist party in France.In the autumn of 1939, he was arrested along with other prominent Alsatian autonomists. In 1940, he was freed by German forces, [1] and was appointed as the Kreisleiter (Chief Administrator) of the Mulhouse district by the German authorities.His appointment as Kreisleiter materialized in spite of reservations from the Gestapo, who were reluctant to see a former communist occupy such a strategic office. During this period, he Germanized his name to 'Hans Peter Murer'.Murer was arrested by American forces in Munich in August 1945. He was detained at Bad Mergentheim, and was later handed over to French authorities and imprisoned at Mulhouse jail.After the war, the Court of Justice of Haut-Rhin sentenced him to death on February 26, 1947, for collaboration with the Germans. He was executed by a firing squad on June 10, 1947, on Île Napoléon. In his trail more focus was on his German connections before the war.