France accepts 'responsibility' for deportations

[IndianaGreen]

Source: The Independent (UK)

France accepts 'responsibility' for deportations

Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Paris: France's top judicial body has recognised the government's responsibility for the deportation of Jews during the Second World War.

The Council of State found that the government of Nazi-occupied France at the time held the "responsibility" for deportations and anti-Semitic persecution. The body also found that the deportations had been "compensated for" since 1945, apparently ruling out any reparations for deportees or their families. French governments have taken decades to acknowledge any role by the collaborationist Vichy regime in the Holocaust.



Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-accepts-responsibility-for-deportations-1623814.html

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"That boy wasn't French, he was a Jew!"

Line in Louis Malle's Au revoir, les enfants

[Chulanowa]

1. Well, good!

How many are left in the list that need to step up and take responsibility?

[Boojatta]

2. Shouldn't an unbiased 3rd party determine whether or not they've been "compensated for" adequately?

The body also found that the deportations had been "compensated for" since 1945, apparently ruling out any reparations for deportees or their families.

Do the descendants of the deportees need to rely upon the government of Iran for weapons to be used in active resistance against this denial of their right of return?

[catnhatnh]

3. See...that's just where I didn't want to go....

Without starting my own thread...or joining your flamewar "now in progress"...

[IndianaGreen]

4. Rule of thumb: Ignore idiots

Here, let's have some popcorn.

:popcorn:

[riderinthestorm]

5. Have you read the book "Sarah's Key"? It's about the Vel d'Hiv round up and deportations

that occurred in Paris.

Very well written book. The Vel D'Hiv round up was carried out by French police who also were responsible for the incarceration of the French Jews for weeks at camps outside of Paris. The French men were deported almost right away. About a week later the French police physically separated the mothers from the children with fire hoses, beatings, and guns. The mothers were promptly shipped out. Babies, infants, toddlers... more than 4000 children were then left for weeks in the camps without food, adequate toilet facilities, no clean water, without their parents. Those who survived were loaded onto the trains to Auschwitz in small groups with other Jews to disguise the fact that these were the Vel d'Hiv children and that they were parentless.

Not a single French Jew from that round up survived.

Really a sad story. France definitely has some Holocaust blood on her hands.

[AlphaCentauri]

6. and we are building our own concentration camps

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — Few in this threadbare little mill town gave much thought to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, the maximum-security jail beside the public ball fields at the edge of town. Even when it expanded and added barbed wire, Wyatt was just the backdrop for Little League games, its name stitched on the caps of the team it sponsored.

Then people began to disappear: the leader of a prayer group at St. Matthew’s Roman Catholic Church; the father of a second grader at the public charter school; a woman who mopped floors in a Providence courthouse.

After days of searching, their families found them locked up inside Wyatt — only blocks from home, but in a separate world.

http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/12/29/americas-immigration-concentartion-camps-a-growing-prison-industrial-complex/