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Vichy France: everything you wanted to know

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Exactly What Happened to Jews in France?

There were camps in north africa as well. Of those deported, only about 25 hundred survived and were able to return. There's eight thousand children included in these numbers of people who were deported from from france. I don't want to just s on on the negative part, which it was devastating, absolutely. But there was also support for jews in france as well. People who helped jews illegally cross from the northern zone into the southern zone. The southern zone was perceived as being safer at least through november f 19 forty two. And there were also networks would try and help get people to neutral spain and to neutral switzerland as well.

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