21 August, 2012

The Crime Committed in France, by France by Francois Hollande

The Crime Committed in France, by France by Fran�ois Hollande | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books: We owe the Jewish martyrs of the Velodrome d’Hiver the truth about what happened seventy years ago.

The truth is that French police—on the basis of the lists they had themselves drawn up—undertook to arrest the thousands of innocent people trapped on July 16, 1942. And that the French gendarmerie escorted them to the internment camps.

The truth is that no German soldiers—not a single one—were mobilized at any stage of the operation.

The truth is that this crime was committed in France, by France.