Robert Falco, excluded under Vichy because a Jew and judge of Nazi criminals in Nuremberg

Robert Falco (1882-1960) lived an exceptional life. A man of culture, a lawyer then a brilliant judge, he was dismissed by the Vichy regime in 1940 because he was Jewish. Reinstated after the Liberation, he represented France at the negotiations in London that led to the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, before serving as an alternate judge at the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi dignitaries. His Journal was published in 2012 and provides a highly original insight into the trial, from the inside. Robert Falco ended his career at the Court of Cassation where he was the inspired rapporteur of the revision of the 1857 judgment against Baudelaire for Les fleurs du mal.