My thanks to Michael Rosen for a twitter alert on the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the deportation of Jews from Vichy France ultimately to be murdered in Auschwitz. 77,000 Jews were despatched by the authorities before liberation in August 1944.
The days of 16th and 17th July 1942,80 years ago,marked the start when thousands were sent to their deaths.
Most were selected for being Jewish and not born in France. Rounded up by local police not the Nazis. The process of grappling with Vichy in France continues with Macron today unveiling a new memorial and pointing to continuing anti-semitism
It is indeed a history of the present and not just for France. The current UK Government still plans to deport some people who have every right to be here but were not born here to Rwanda. Of course they are not being sent to a concentration camp but one sees a similarity of thought process
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