Charles Dubost (lawyer)

Charles Dubost (1905-1991) was a French lawyer. He was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials.

This article is about the French lawyer. For the French surgeon, see Charles Dubost (surgeon).
Charles Dubost
Born1905
Died1991
OccupationLawyer

Early life

Charles Dubost was born in 1905.[1]

Career

Dubost became a lawyer in 1931.[1] He was appointed as a prosecutor in Pontarlier in 1940.[1] While serving as an assistant prosecutor in Toulon in December 1941, he raised the age of consent to 21 for homosexual men, but not for heterosexual couples.[2]

Dubost joined the French resistance shortly after the Germans invaded.[2] After the war, he was a lawyer at the courts in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille.[1]

Dubost was a member of the French delegation to the Nuremberg trials in 1946.[1] For example, he asked a witness if the Germans had known about the concentration camps.[3] He also presented some documents which showed that Hermann Göring had purposely built camps for British prisoners near RAF targets.[4][5] Moreover, he began research for the prosecution of German businessmen, although the trial was subsequently conducted by United States judges instead.[1]

Dubost worked on prosecutions of collaborationist French businessmen in the late 1940s.[1] He was appointed as assistant to the general prosecutor of the Court of Appeal of Paris in 1955.[1]

Death

Dubost died in 1991.[1]

References
  1. "Dubost, Charles". Sciences Po. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  2. Boninchi, Marc (2005). Vichy et l'ordre moral. Paris: PUF. pp. 143–193. ISBN 9782130553397. OCLC 420826274 – via Cairn.info.
  3. "Tells Tribunal of Nazi Horrors. Witness Saw Captives Kicked Off Open Cars". The Mason City Globe-Gazette. Mason City, Iowa. February 7, 1946. p. 10. Retrieved August 12, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. The thin, sensitive face of the blond Oslo attorney hardened as he answered a question by the French prosecutor, Charles Dubost, as to whether the German people had known of the concentration camp horrors.
  4. "Goering Installed Prison Camps Near Air Targets". The Sydney Morning Herald. January 31, 1946. p. 1. Retrieved August 12, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Diabolical Nazi Plans. Airmen As Targets". The Age. January 31, 1946. p. 1. Retrieved August 12, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
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