Israel Matzav

France to publish list of Nazi collaborators... in 2015

A comprehensive list of French citizens who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II, which has been hidden in a police basement since Paris' liberation, will be released to the public in 2015, by which time all of the persons named will likely be dead.

The documents are under a special classification order which prohibits their publication for 75 years after 1940. The order will expire in 2015, at which point the first of the documents will be released.

The Telegraph reported that every police log, including details of arrest, fines, and interviews will be published. The documents are also expected to reveal details about the roles of the Brigade Speciale, which was France's unit that hunted guerrilla fighters and enemies of the Nazis.

Following the occupation of France, the Vichy government aided Germany in the murder of Jews, socialists, homosexuals, and gypsies. Over 70,000 Jews were deported from France to German death camps during the war.

France first spoke out about the French role aiding the Nazis in 1995, when then-French president Jacques Chirac said “the criminal folly of the occupiers was seconded by the French, by the French state.”

For those who have forgotten, let's go to the videotape.



The movie is from 1966, and yes, I saw it on the big screen.

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:29 AM