LE FIGARO. - This Sunday, we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Vél' d'Hiv' roundup. What happened that day? Georges BENSOUSSAN. - Six months earlier, on January 20, 1942, at Wannsee in the suburbs of Berlin, the repressive apparatus of the Reich, the RSHA, had set up the main machinery for the mass murder of the Jews of Europe, the vast majority of whom lived in Eastern Europe. The decision was probably taken between October and December 1941. What happened in France in July 1942 was part of an overall policy which concerned all of Western Europe, and part of...
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