Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I challenge some information stated in the blurb. It says, "Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews."
Although I'm only a casual student of the Holocaust, I had never heard that charge against most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris. I did a quick search and found this from an organization called HEART (Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team): "very few Jews who possessed French citizenship fell into the Germans net. The French police refused to arrest them. When the SD attempted to organise street pressgangs, the French Jews found friends to hide them.( http://www.holocaustresearchproject....renchjews.html).
Yes, it is an historical novel. But historical novels are supposed to be based upon facts. But, that assertion appears to be contrary to the facts. |