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Hello, welcome to NewsHour, coming to you from the BBC World Service in London with me,
Sean Lake, coming up this hour.
One man shocked when he discovered that he was the grandson of the most powerful of Nazis,
Heinrich Himmler.
In my case, it was like 47 years of my life, seemed to be like a lie.
But we're going to begin this hour in France.
Let's begin, in fact,
with some archive from 1945 after it had been liberated and the Second World War had ended.
I made long arguments and recriminations.
The proceedings of the Pétain trial have drawn out into weeks with little appearance of interest by the Marshal himself.
British Pathé recording the trial of Marshal Philippe Petain,
wartime leader Vichy France, who collaborated with the Occupy Nazi forces.
Since then, no Western European head of state has found themselves in jail.
Until now.
This morning, Nicolas Sarkozy, president from 2007 to 2012,
left home cheered by supporters hand in hand with his wife, the singer-songwriter Carla Bruni.
His destination La Sante prison in Paris.
Mr. Sarkozy was convicted
for conspiring to acquire campaign funds from the Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi and sentenced to five years in prison.