Olivier Wieviorka

Olivier Wieviorka (born 1960), is a French historian specializing in the history of World War II and the French Resistance. He is a faculty member at the École normale supérieure de Cachan.

He is known for his controversial claim that, during World War II, Canadian First Nations soldiers scalped their prisoners.[1]

Biography

He is the brother of Michel Wieviorka.

His paternal grandparents, Polish Jews, were arrested in Nice during World War II and murdered at Auschwitz. His father, a refugee in Switzerland, and his mother, daughter of a Parisian tailor and a refugee in Grenoble, survived the war.[2]

References
  1. Ward, John (8 November 2010), "Des Autochtones accusés d'avoir scalpé pendant la Deuxième Guerre", La Presse (in French).
  2. "Annette Wieviorka". Archived from the original on 22 April 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
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