Gestapo detained famous French historian for 10 hours at Houston Itl Airport .

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Why is he famous you ask?
This distinguished historian's specialty is...Vichy France. And the Holocaust.

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International scholar visiting Texas A&M "mistakenly detained" by customs officials

A visiting scholar to Texas A&M was detained by customs officials in Houston this week while on his way to speak at a symposium in Aggieland, officials said Friday at the conference.
Henry Rousso was flying in from Paris to participate in the Hagler Institute Symposium when he was “mistakenly detained” Wednesday evening upon his arrival, according to Richard Golsan, director of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M.
“When he called me with this news two nights ago, he was waiting for customs officials to send him back to Paris as an illegal alien on the first flight out,” said Golsan during his introduction to the session which Rousso was set to participate in.

His work centers on the history and memory of traumatic pasts, France in WWII and the post-war period, his profile on the CNRS website says.
Rousso's current study involves the relationship between history, memory and justice.

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His "crime" ???
He was born an Egyptian.