After the war finished, he could very well have stopped doing his forgeries because obviously the moral imperative had gone and also the need to do it in France had gone. His attention turned then to other struggles that were going on in the world, which needed some help with false documents. So he found himself making false documents first for agents of military intelligence in France who were needing to cross Germany to find out about the death camps. In the 1960s he began to work for the F.L.N. guerrillas in Algeria who were fighting against the French colonial power. Then he moved to anywhere there was a leftist group rising against the right wing of fascist authorities. He even helped Americans
The global elite’s annual Alpine jamboree may have lost some of its convening power, our editor-in-chief says, but the many encounters it enables still have enormous value. Our correspondent considers what the closing of Noma, a legendary Danish restaurant, means for the world of fine dining. And remembering Adolfo Kaminsky, whose expertly forged documents saved thousands of Jews’ lives.
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