"The head of France’s Vichy regime may have pushed for tougher laws against French Jews than were requested by Nazi Germany, a newly discovered document shows.
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."
Popular Posts
-
On the 1st April 2015, Iraqi born British Pro-Israel activist Orim Shimshon came to visit Israel and we invited him to give a talk to a roo... -
NOTICE: This article I submitted won in the quarter-finals of the Pro-Israel blog-off competition . When we seek information on new techn... -
"Between 1920 and 1970, 900,000 Jews were expelled from Arab and other Muslim countries. The 1940s were a turning point in this tragedy...