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History, on this day : la rafle du Vél’d’Hiv
die Banalität des Bösen, sagte Hannah Arendt On July 16 and 17, 1942, the French police rounds up in Paris 13,000 Jews, including 4,000 children, who are later taken to Auschwitz German Konzentrationslager, Poland, where 99% will be assassinated. After the crushing German victory in May-June 1940, French venerated marshal Philippe Pétain has started ruling…
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Death of a French Nazi militant in Ukraine
On June 1, 2022, in Kharkov region, a Russian shelling fatally injures a French volunteer, member of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine, but the public disclosure of his identity and pedigree is heart-wrenching for the French authorities. The first report On June 2, from an anonymous official source, French radio Europe…