France was the first European country to ban the burqa.
True, but they’ve banned nuns habits too, at least at certain beaches. France is really messed up that way. “Nothing outside the state”. I agree on the ban for full face veils but only as a matter of security.
#4. France was the first European country in WW2 to actively support the Germans via the Vichy Govt (which deported its French Jews to death camps or allowed it).
The French Communist Party was the major CP to betray non-communist French resistance fighters to the Gestapo (The Moulin case for instance), followed by Tito’s “Partisans” army and the Lithuanian/Latvia SS/pro-German units. There also may have been some CP betrayals of resistance fighters in Norway. Some well respected Norwegians are suspected of being Soviet agents as far back as the 1940’s and would be the ones to betray the non-communist resistance fighters to the Germans through secret agreements like those of the FCP.
Lots of little known deals between the Communists and the Germans in Europe and Ho Chi Minh and the Japanese occupiers in Vietnam during WW2. You won’t read about this in our history books because the writers of them are either Marxists, communist sympathizers or just plain incompentent/lazy.
Franco’s “strongman” Spain saved the lives of hundreds, if not thousands of Jews and refused to join Germany in the war against the rest of Europe.