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An in-depth look at the political and social events shaping France. Monday at 3:45pm Paris time.
Resistance: When France's clergy saved Jews during WWII
France in focus
12 minutes 26 seconds
6 months ago
Resistance: When France's clergy saved Jews during WWII
After the fall of France in 1940, the clergy welcomed Marshal Pétain as a saviour. But when Jewish people started being rounded up in the summer of 1942, Protestant pastors and Catholic clerics spoke out against the deportations. Their words broke the silence of the institutions and encouraged the Resistance, while schools and convents opened their doors to Jewish refugees.
France in focus
An in-depth look at the political and social events shaping France. Monday at 3:45pm Paris time.
