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Jean-Pierre Azéma, 87, Dies; Chronicled French Collaboration With Nazis

He was among the historians who challenged national myths about the compromises his country made after being occupied by Germany in World War II.

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Jean-Pierre Azéma in 2011. A French historian and writer, he helped destroy the postwar myths that the collaborationist wartime Vichy regime had done what it could to resist the occupying Germans.

Sandy Gall, Reporter Who Covered a Half-Century of Wars, Dies at 97

He was in intrepid journalist in Vietnam, Africa and the Middle East before becoming a mainstay news presenter on British TV.

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Sandy Gall in 1994. He was seen on ITN’s popular “News at Ten” for more than two decades.
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