> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Erik Reuter > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 5:17 P > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: Re: Corrected French history (was RE: Deadlier Than War) > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:53:28AM -0800, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > http://muweb.millersville.edu/~holo-con/laub.html > > > > French police caught most of the 80,000 Jews who later perished on > > German concentration camps. > > Any idea why the French police caught 80,000 Jews? What did the French > police expect would happen to them if they had simply gone about > business as usual instead of rounding up Jews?
I'm afraid they may have done it rather willingly under the Vichy rule. If it has sounded as though I'm suggesting that the Germans compelled the French to round up Jews, that's not what I intended. Rather, the German defeat opened the door for extremist conservative Catholics to act upon the anti-Semitism they couldn't act upon when France was a republic that granted compete rights to Jews, as has France after WWII and since. There was serious and deadly collaboration, without question. Those people went to Auschwitz via the hands of their own neighbors. One might be tempted to ask why, given the degree of collaboration, such a small number of Jews perished in comparison to the rest of Europe. I'm at a loss to imagine any reason other than that the conservatives were in the minority, while the majority of French people protected the Jews. If the majority of French people favored "evacuation" of the Jews (to put it as mildly as they might have rationalized it to be, especially before the 'final solution' began), surely the losses would have been far, far greater, don't you think? Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
