Paris – Le Pen Says France Not Responsible For WWII Round Up Of Jews

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    FILE - Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party leader and candidate for French 2017 presidential election, addresses supporters during a political rally in in Monswiller, France, 05 April 2017.  EPA/PATRICK SEEGERParis – Far-right French presidential contender Marine Le Pen made “a serious mistake” by denying that the French State was responsible for the roundup of Jews in World War II, her main rival said Monday.

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    Emmanuel Macron, an independent centrist, was among many presidential candidates criticizing Le Pen’s comments Monday.

    “Some had forgotten that Marine Le Pen is the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen,” Macron, the front-runner in the April 23-May 7 two-round election, told BFM TV.

    Le Pen’s father repeatedly has been convicted for anti-Semitism and racism.

    Le Pen said Sunday on RTL radio “I don’t think France is responsible for the Vel d’Hiv,” in reference to the stadium where many thousands of Jews were rounded up in July 1942 before being sent to Nazi death camps.

    Le Pen later said in a written statement she “considers that France and the Republic were in London” during wartime and “the Vichy regime wasn’t France.”

    She argued that that had been the position of France’s heads of state, including Charles De Gaulle, until former president Jacques Chirac “wrongly” acknowledged the state’s role in Jewish persecution in 1995.

    “It does not discharge the effective and personal responsibility of the French who took part into the monstrous roundup of the Vel d’Hiv,” she wrote.

    Some 13,000 Jews were deported by French police on July 16 and 17, 1942, many of whom were first holed up in harsh conditions at Paris’ Vel d’Hiv, or the Winter Velodrome stadium.

    In all, about 75,000 Jews were deported from France to Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Only 2,500 survived.

    After decades of denial, Chirac in 1995 became the first president to publicly acknowledge France’s role in the deportations, issuing a long-awaited public apology at the start of his first term in office.


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    6 years ago

    What she said was ( is ) BS.

    Buchwalter
    Buchwalter
    6 years ago

    The French Vichy regime helped the Gestapo rounding up Jews under the guidance of Petain. Steve Bannon is her friend

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    6 years ago

    To #1 You took the words right out of my fingers!

    6 years ago

    Give her a copy of “Hitler’s Willing Executioners” by Goldhagen

    LionofZion
    LionofZion
    6 years ago

    75,000 Jews and only 2500 survived! I knew I hated France, I did not realize how much I hate France. Does anyone know how this ranks with the other countries, did any other place kill this high a percentage of their Jews?