75% of French Jews survived the war, one of the highest rates for an occupied country. Most of the Jews that were handed over were not French citizens, but alien Jews who had fled Germany and other parts of Europe. The Nazis convinced the Vichy authorities, that they would take these alien Jews off of their hands and send them to "Family Camps" in the East. Now what's open for question is what did the Vichy Authorities really know about what their ultimate fate would be.
>75% of French Jews survived the war, one of the highest rates for an occupied country. Most of the Jews that were handed over were not French citizens, but alien Jews who had fled Germany and other parts of Europe. The Nazis convinced the Vichy authorities, that they would take these alien Jews off of their hands and send them to “Family Camps” in the East. Now what’s open for question is what did the Vichy Authorities really know about what their ultimate fate would be.
The German authorities hadn’t settled on killing all the Jews off until late 1942 when victory no longer appeared to be likely. Before that they seem earnest in their desire to deport them to Palestine or Madagascar. Of course it’s likely that the Holocaust still would have happened if the Germans had won the war given the way the Nazi’s thought about the Jews.