Posted on 12/30/2017 4:29:59 PM PST by Trump20162020
In Paris's 12th arrondissement, on Bercy Street by the banks of the River Seine, on the 13th floor of the Ministry of Finance is France's tax authority headquarters. Something has been afoot there recently that is liable to upset French Jews and spook their relations with the country in which they live. Under the radar, a secret department has been created with the sole purpose of handling tax evasion by French Jews. "Globes" can reveal for the first time the details of the secret department that is targeting Jews in France and new immigrants from France in Israel.
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Thank you for sending. Interesting. And Terrifying.
Damn Nazi collaborators never left France. .. God help the Jewish people.
J’accuse!
Wonder if they wrote new laws or just translated the ones written by the NAZIs?
Are they reopening Drancy and the Vel’ d’Hiv?
Le Raffle, good movie.
Just watched it the other night on Amazon Prime.
Excellent movie. The portrayal of Laval was surprising.
One thing to clarify.
The majority of Jews that were sent East by Vichy were not French citizens, but aliens, who came to France from other countries, but never became French citizens.
75% of Jews in France before the war, wound up surviving the war, because Vichy actually did in general, leave French Jewish citizens alone. That is a much higher percentage than most of the other occupied countries. I still find it amazing that Leon Blum, survived the war. In most occupied countries, a guy like that would have been killed straight away.
And one of the terrible crimes committed by Vichy was to send the children East, in the mistaken belief that it would have been better to keep the families together. There is debate as to how much the Vichy authorities knew as to what their fate would be at the time.
Vichy is b-a-c-k
It’s been more than seventy years since the Third Reich was defeated and France is STILL collaborating with the Nazis...
Muslims don’t work. Jews work very hard. But Islam is a protected religion; and it’s open season on Jews
With all due respect, dfw, your post reads like an apologist’s. Whether the Jews were citizens or not has NO bearing on the horrors the Nazis committed upon them. To even slightly rationalize what the Vichy knew or didn’t know is delusional - they collaborated with the Nazis regime and that alone is enough.
So did the Dutch and Belgians, but for some reason, they don’t get picked on nearly as much as the French, despite the fact, as I pointed out, the survival rate for Jews in France was much higher than in those countries.
My goal was to clear up the perception that the vast majority of Jews in France perished during the war, which was not the case.
It’s easy with the benefit of hindsight to know what course of action should have been taken.
But I will stand by my assertion that most people at that time would have dismissed the original reports about the death camps, and probably would have believed that the Nazis were settling the Jews in “Family Camps” in the East, with the mistaken belief that they would actually be safer there. Of course we know better now.
And yes, for mere collaboration alone, Laval and Petain got their just desserts.
The reason the Dutch and Belgians don’t receive their share of condemnation in current terms is largely due to the open anti-semitism is nowhere near as prevalent in their societies, from what I know. The French (in some ways just as “Vichy” as WWII times) seem to make no effort to rid themselves of the stain of anti-semitism.
Per capita, The Netherlands had the highest number of volunteers for the Waffen SS.
Again, I said in current terms. They will live with the eternal shame of their past. You want some real stomach-churninh horror? Read in-depth about the Einsatzgruppen - that is a story that will leave no sane person unmoved
>Marine Le Pen’s father is a neo-Nazi. French Jews had no good choices.
Spite the child for the sins of the father?
And I should clarifying that I’m referring only to the treatment of Jews — obviously Petain’s full cooperation with Germany in light of the occupation of northern France and the continued internment of over 2 million French POWs was unacceptable — perhaps understandable given the overwhelming number of Communists in the French Resistance and opposition, but opposing those forces wouldn’t require the ready collaboration he gave.
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