L'affaire Petiot et la Shoah. Un tueur en série sous l'Occupation

Nicknamed “Doctor Satan”, Marcel Petiot was one of the worst serial killers of the 20th century, responsible for at least 26 murders in occupied Paris. He was sentenced to death and executed in the spring of 1946, following a trial that inflamed the whole country. But who was he really and what do we know about his victims? How did Doctor Petiot implement his Machiavellian plan to lure his prey, kill them and then get rid of the bodies?
The historian Jean-Marc Dreyfus meticulously reconstructs this chapter in the history of France. And beyond the revelations about the lives of the murdered people or Petiot's methods, this investigation places this tragic episode in its context, that of the Occupation. The majority of the dead were Jews, and even if the judges wanted to avoid making the Petiot trial a political one, it was in this court that the persecution of the Jews of France was described in public for the first time.
More than a history book, L'affaire Petiot et la Shoah reads like a thriller in which the truth often seems to surpass fiction. Thanks to a thrilling narrative, Jean-Marc Dreyfus immerses us in this extraordinary case: one of the greatest French serial killers tortured, killed and burned Jews between 1942 and 1944, in his mansion in the 16th arrondissement.