Paul Wormser won a bronze medal in team épée at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He won the French National Epee Championship for university students in 1927 and was bronze medalist the following year. In 1927 at the Summer Student World Championships in Rome, he was individual gold medalist and a member of the silver medal winning French team. The following year he was on the French team that finished second. In November of 1929 he was on the Mulhouse team that won the Alsace championships. In 1932 he was silver medalist in the French National Championships. He studied at the University of Strasbourg and became a dentist in Colmar.
In World War II, after the Vichy Government passed anti-Semitic laws, Wormser found refuge in a commune in Aveyron. On 19 July 1944, a gunfight broke out between the Germans and members of the French resistance and Wormser ran out to help the wounded. He was captured by the Germans and sent to a prison in Rodez. On 17 August 1944, as Allied troops were approaching Rodez, before the Germans evacuated Rodez, they took about 30 members of the resistance, including Wormser, out of the prison and into a nearby field where they were executed and their bodies left in a ditch. This became known as “Le massacre de Sainte-Radegonde.”
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