One commentator in Nouvel Obs website wrote: "French women prefer a betrayed wife to a resistance figure (Banon)."

The ruling also covered four other resistance figures, including Adm. Wilhelm Canaris, sentenced and hanged along with Mr. Bonhoeffer on April 9, 1945.

Barbie was tried on 41 separate counts of crimes against humanity, based on the depositions of 730 Jews and resistance figures, who cited his torture practices and murders.

He remained a controversial figure who was reviled by some as a murderer but hailed by others as a heroic resistance figure.

The fate of the much smaller number of resistance figures actually working with the C.I.A. is unknown.

He is son to Georgi Yanev and grandson to Yane Yanev (in whose honor he was named), both known as resistance figures to the communist regime.

She added that her spouse loved any resistance figure willing to fight the Zionist regime.

The Hectare would also dispose of diehard resistance figures.

Leaders of the Bruggroup were prominent resistance figures like Gerben Wagenaar and Henk Gortzak.