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354: Paris 1968: The Return of De Gaulle (Part 2)

The Rest Is History

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The Parisian Police Kill Algerian Demonstrators

Two people die in total, I think it's fair to say. The spectacle of Jews being deported from France by the French police is an incensory... That is a very raw wound. And he's Jewish. Exactly. So the government bans him from returning to France. This inflames the students and you have yet more violence. At this point, the army are making contingency plans to reoccupy the capital. Which is what happened with the commune. With the bloody... I mean, if that had happened, of course, you can only imagine what the death toll would be.

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