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Originally Posted by Catlady
For one thing, the blurb you quote says "Jews"; the HEART quote refers to "Jews who possessed French citizenship"--these are not the same thing.
I am certainly not a historian of the Holocaust, but I would point to the mass arrest of Jews in Paris in 1942, known as the Vel' d'Hiv roundup, in which the French police acted at the direction of the Nazi regime. More than 13,000 Jews were arrested, including children, and shipped to extermination camps. The French government apologized for its complicity in 1995. See, for example, the NY Times story on the 70th anniversary of the roundup.
To bring this back to books, last year I listened to the novel Sarah's Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay, in which the young girl of the title and her family are among the Jews arrested during the roundup. |
Well, this is not the forum for discussing or debating it. Frankly, I don't have much interest in discussing or debating it, either. And it's not that I'm afraid that I couldn't produce enough evidence to prove it.
I would find it interesting to discuss more the nature of historical novels, though--how much should be historical, what part of it should be historical, etc. This forum isn't the place for that, either, unfortunately.