Charles Dubost
Born1905
Died1991
OccupationLawyer

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

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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Dubost, Charles". Sciences Po. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  2. 1 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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