Pierre Joffroy

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Pierre Joffroy (born 1929 in Lorraine, France) was a French author, dramaturge and journalist who wrote for Paris Match, Libération and L'Express. He died in 2008.

In France Joffroy released numerous novels, stage plays and articles.

For a period of 30 years he worked on a biography of Kurt Gerstein before he finally released the book A Spy for God, which deals with Kurt Gerstein's story and the decades of the author's research.

Within the framework of an interview with Deutschlandfunk(DLF) the French author declared, that he considered Kurt Gerstein to be "one of the most important persons of World War II".

Bibliography

Un séjour à Alcatraz, novel 1965
Les Prétendants, novella 1966
1416 ou Punition, stage play 1971
Parfait Amour, novel 1986.
A Spy for God, 2002

Publications

Pierre Joffroy, Le retour des bourreaux in : Paris Match, Nr. 831, Paris, 13 March 1965, S. 3–5, 7, 9. (deals with the process of Munich, 1965)

External links

Kurt Gertstein

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 4931531 LCCN: n86852805 ISNI: 0000 0001 1587 6329 GND: 123814383 BNF: cb119088798

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Name	Pierre Joffroy
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Short description	french author, dramaturge andjournalist
Date of birth	1929
Place of birth	Lorraine(France)
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