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The Dreyfus Affair Is An Exceptional Case. It's True That Here And There You Can Find Some Dregs Of Anti-semitism, But The Situation Is The Same In Every Country. After All, You're Not Exactly A Nation Like All The Other Nations. You Are Unique, If Only Because You Are Such An Ancient People, And Because Of The Way You Are Spread All Over The World And Your Obvious Success In Many Fields. But, In All Honesty, Anti-semitism In France Has Always Remained On A Minimal Level, At The Verbal Level Only. It Never Went As Far As Pogroms.

My Father Was Killed By A German Mine, While I Lost Other Relatives In Allied Bombing Attacks. The Second World War Claimed Tens Of Millions Of Victims. For Some The Most Terrible Aspect Of It Was The Deportations, While For Others It Was The Leveling Bombings Or The Mass Deaths By Starvation And Cold.

O My Dear Parishioners, Let Us Endeavor To Get To Heaven! There We Shall See God. How Happy We Shall Feel! If The Parish Is Converted We Shall Go There In Procession With The Parish Priest At The Head. . . We Must Get To Heaven! What A Pity It Would Be If Some Of You Were To Find Yourselves On The Other Side!

The Second World War Claimed Tens Of Millions Of Victims.

The Much Greater Crimes Of The Soviet Gulags Occurred Over Decades And Cost Millions Of Lives.