
Vichy France: everything you wanted to know
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What's Happening in France?
People turn to the black market. They build relationships with people in the countryside. There's an explosion of family packages that are being sent they were called family packages, even though very often it was just an acquaintance who was helping you. The south of france especially is known for having vineyards and grape vines. But that's not good for your kind of daily provisioning needs. So there's some malnutrition. Ah, there's there's o kno hunger. We don't see starvation at the level that you see in places like grease, for example. Well, jews who had their ration cards actually were stamped with a big red jif or juive on it. And the
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