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However, The Wind Only Changes The Picture Temporarily, The Substrate Remains The Same And Sooner Or Later The Same Picture Surfaces Once Again.

France Was An Occupied Country, A Country That Surrendered And Was Left Without The Right To Choose.

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.

In France, At Least The German Occupation Was Not Especially Inhumane, Even If There Were A Number Of Excesses - Inevitable In A Country Of 550,000 Square Kilometres... If The Germans Had Carried Out Mass Executions Across The Country As The Received Wisdom Would Have It, Then There Wouldn't Have Been Any Need For Concentration Camps For Political Deportees.

I'm Not Saying That The Gas Chambers Didn't Exist. I Couldn't See Them Myself.