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frenchchevalierblanc t1_j5tip1a wrote
Reply to comment by Zingzing_Jr in A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found by Geek-Haven888
yes northern part of Algeria but not with this statistics, Algeria was never occupied by Germans
frenchchevalierblanc t1_j5t4v05 wrote
Reply to comment by scolfin in A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found by Geek-Haven888
I'm not sure what you mean.
75% of jews in French territory (metropolitan france occupied by Germany), excluding the one in north african territory or colonies
frenchchevalierblanc t1_j5ssqyc wrote
Reply to comment by Picticious in A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found by Geek-Haven888
yes no one is denying that but the dilution of responsibilies make things happen it's not that french policemen went and killed everyone, they were sent to camps in Germany as far as they knew (after 1943 Germans were in charge for everything )
frenchchevalierblanc t1_j5ssoxk wrote
Reply to comment by Picticious in A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found by Geek-Haven888
French didn't slaughtered those jews though nor asked to.
Vichy France was a racist dictatorial regime, that became a fascist one after 1943, people were bad.
France doesn't try to whitewash anything, French student learn everything about the collaboration, what Vichy France did, etc.. the horror in colonies, the racist state there, the racist state of Vichy.
No problem talking about resistance fighters murdered or political prisoners.
frenchchevalierblanc t1_j5ss0ty wrote
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75% of jews on french territory survived
frenchchevalierblanc t1_j5src8d wrote
Reply to comment by Picticious in A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found by Geek-Haven888
75% of jews in France survived though, including 70,000 hidden children.
It's true that France before 1943 was still struggling to act as if the French Police (essentially in the northern part of France officially "occupied" area where Vichy didn't have much control) was still in control, so they were responsible to arrest jews (they literally asked for it to the germans). There was no really way to know what would become of them though, jews didn't really know either. Quota asked by the germans were never fulfilled though. Lots of french policemen could help some families still pretending to arrest, some policemen just did as asked. Even in places like the Vel d'Hiv were jews where regrouped some people just "walk away" while policemen were looking the other way.
Things like "also arresting the children" was seen as they would go to work camps with families, people thought that if you keep families together with children it would mean they wouldn't kill everyone, why bother? That's all those subtle decisions and the dilution of responsibilities that makes things like shoah possible in the end.
Some people though understood exactly what the horror mean and did everything they can to hide / go out of camps.
1 million french soldiers were emprisonned in Germany and the germans used them as bargaining chips.
frenchchevalierblanc t1_j5sr7yb wrote
Reply to comment by ATNinja in A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found by Geek-Haven888
70,000 children from jewish families were hidden by french people, you can imagine how many people needs to be kept in secret and not tell anything to the authorities.
There were 350,000 jewish people on French territory in 1940, 100,000 of them were "foreign" jews that were not born French. France deported 75,000 of them (2,000 survived), mostly "foreign jews".
frenchchevalierblanc t1_j5sqwvf wrote
Reply to comment by grixit in A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found by Geek-Haven888
It was not Vichy as a whole but more people working in the administration etc..
Pétain didn't care about jews, he just not want to be seen deporting french people. So foreign jews were given without a blink from Pétain.
frenchchevalierblanc t1_j2yoei6 wrote
Reply to comment by princeps_astra in Rwanda report: France ‘complicit’ in 1994 genocide | Human Rights News by Character-Rabbit-127
French pilots died on the plane crash
frenchchevalierblanc t1_izjhwiy wrote
Reply to comment by stocks-mostly-lower in “Being Madame is a miserable job” Liselotte of the Palatinate lived at the court of the French king Louis XIV and wrote countless letters that offer a unique insight into the intrigues and everyday life of the nobility. by swissnationalmuseum
His male lovers would also intrigue against his wife
frenchchevalierblanc t1_izirvtg wrote
Reply to “Being Madame is a miserable job” Liselotte of the Palatinate lived at the court of the French king Louis XIV and wrote countless letters that offer a unique insight into the intrigues and everyday life of the nobility. by swissnationalmuseum
She is "Madame" because she was married to the brother of the king still in line for succession, which was addressed usually as "Monsieur".
She was apparently feeling "miserable" because Monsieur didn't care much about her, from the text.
frenchchevalierblanc t1_ixwd7j0 wrote
Reply to What is the oldest tribe or clan that has been existing throughout history? And also, the oldest ethnicity? by sheerwaan
Basque people in France and Spain still use a language that " is the last remaining descendant of one of the pre-Indo-European languages of Prehistoric Europe" (wikipedia)
frenchchevalierblanc t1_iwye6bd wrote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4neKuY0i9rI
"Capitain Conan" is a french movie in WW1 in the Balkans, from a famous 1920s french book writen by a former soldier that fought on the "orient front".
frenchchevalierblanc t1_iwfwqid wrote
Reply to What was used in late medieval to early modern england for mensuration products? by dragracesssss
Piece of clothes and they were washed by washerwomen, who could gossip on who was getting pregnant or not
frenchchevalierblanc t1_it1rutf wrote
Reply to comment by SLMZ17 in One of the longest ancient Roman inscriptions ever discovered in Britain is to go on display for the first time. by Demderdemden
yeah, companies do this...
frenchchevalierblanc t1_j911e1x wrote
Reply to comment by pier4r in Why Nikola Tesla is So Famous (and Westinghouse is not) by pier4r
30 years ago, almost nobody knew his story and he was not "famous" at all