Philippe Petain is believed to have edited a document to toughen a bill aimed at discriminating against Jews in the fall of 1940, when the French government collaborated with and was under Nazi Germany’s control.
The document -- a marked-up early draft of a law that was passed Oct. 3, 1940, and which infamously classified Jews as second-class citizens by forbidding them access to certain jobs -- was deposited at the Memorial of the Shoah museum in Paris at the end of last week by an anonymous individual."
