Pierre Garat (11 April 1919 – 5 November 1976) was a high-level civil servant of

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. From 25 August 1943, he was the head of the service for the Jewish question for the

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. He was a member of the UJPF (a section of the PPF) and (according to the CDL for the

) a member of the Petainist organisation "Les Amis du Maréchal" (The Marshal's Friends). In August 1943, Pierre Garat was made director of the cabinet of Pierre-René Gazagne, Préfet of

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. On the liberation of

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, his dossier was examined by the

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for the

, who put him and

Maurice Papon Maurice Papon (; 3 September 1910 – 17 February 2007) was a French civil servant who led the police in major prefectures from the 1930s to the 1960s, before he became a Gaullist politician. When he was secretary general for the police in B ...

on its list of people to separate from state service. Nevertheless, he was made sous-préfet at Dax in August 1944, then at

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in September. In 1947, he re-assumed the Préfet Gazagne, became secretary-general of the general government of Algeria, becoming the director of its cabinet. He remained untried right up to his death in 1976.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Garat 1919 births 1976 deaths French collaborators with Nazi Germany French war criminals Place of birth missing Holocaust perpetrators in France French Popular Party politicians