Klaus Barbie, Maurice Papon, Paul Touvier. The Nazi, the militiaman, the senior civil servant. Over the course of a decade, from 1987 to 1998, the French courts conducted the trial of three men who, each in their own capacity, had contributed to the implementation and execution of a policy of arrest, torture and deportation of Jews and members of the Resistance in France between 1940 and 1944.