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11/10/19
The History Behind a Recently Defaced French Holocaust Memorial
by Norman JW Goda
The memorial plaque at 12 rue Sainte-Catherine in the central part of town contained the names of the 86 Jews arrested at that address on 9 February 1943. It was the largest single roundup of Jews in the city. On the plaque, black paint was used to cross out their names.
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10/6/19
The Nazi Census and a Quiet Hero
by Dwight Harshbarger
The census and discrimination from Nazi Germany to today.
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SOURCE: NY Times
8/15/19
The Forgotten Story of Operation Anvil
by Cameron Zinsou
In August 1944, the United States executed a gigantic assault on southern France. Why does no one remember it?
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8/18/19
“This letter is the last that I write to you:" The Courage of Youth Resisters in World War 2 France
by Ronald C. Rosbottom
Young people's impatience, their perceptive view of a better tomorrow, their faith in the power of solidarity, and their energetic fearlessness reminds us adults that change is possible.
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SOURCE: NY Times
4/15/19
‘We Are Amplifying the Work’: France Starts Task Force on Art Looted Under Nazis
Once the art market was flooded with works that had belonged to those fleeing Vichy.
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SOURCE: New Yorker
4/12/19
The Campaign to Remove a Shocking Painting from the French Assembly
One panel of the painting is meant to commemorate the abolition of slavery in France, in 1794, but it perpetuates grotesque racist stereotypes.
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SOURCE: NY Times
4/7/19
Macron Wants France to Commemorate Rwanda Genocide
France has admitted mistakes in how it handled the killings but has always denied the accusations of complicity
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3/10/19
Hitler's Own Maginot Line
by Robert Scott Kellner
What the diary of a German against the Third Reich can teach us about the Atlantic Wall.
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2/10/19
The American Tourist in Paris: A Retrospective
by Lauren Jannette
Although no longer breaking furniture, running out on checks, and throwing racist fits about the evening’s entertainment, Americans remain an integral part of Paris’s continued debates over the benefits and detriments of being one of the world’s largest tourists destinations.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/6/19
Holocaust survivors receive reparations for deportations on French trains
49 Holocaust survivors are receiving $402,000 each from the French government in reparations for the French trains that deported them to Nazi concentration camps.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
1/28/19
Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change
by Crystal Eddins
Marginalized communities of color and nations of the Global South are generally most vulnerable to natural disasters associated with climate change.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
1/2/19
The Louvre is returning sculptures to West Africa. Here’s how and why it's happening.
by John Warne Monroe
France is finally facing up to its colonial legacy.
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SOURCE: NYT
12-27-2018
For Italy’s Populists, Everything Is a Nationalist Cause. Even Leonardo.
The hard-right government has accused the French of disrespect and of trying to culturally appropriate the artist in a dispute over loaning his works.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
12-8-2018
What French populists from the ‘50s can teach us about the 'yellow vests’ roiling Paris today
by Charles Hankla
The Poujadist protests can shed light on today’s unrest – as well as on the many other populist movements agitating governments across the world.
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SOURCE: Radio Free Europe
11-4-18
World Leaders Gather In France To Commemorate End Of WWI
A weeklong series of commemorations has begun in France to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, with some 80 world leaders expected to attend.
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SOURCE: NYT
10-30-18
Nantes is finally confronting its slavery past
A museum established to reveal details about the slave trade shocks visitors.
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SOURCE: Reuters
10-30-18
A century on from WW1, 100 years of work remains to clear munitions
Bomb disposal experts are still digging up munitions sunk in the killing fields of eastern France — and it could be another 100 years before they are done.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
9-13-18
France’s Macron admits to military’s systematic use of torture in Algeria war
France will formally acknowledge the French military’s systemic use of torture in the Algerian War in the 1950s and 1960s, an unprecedented step forward in grappling with its long-suppressed legacy of colonial crimes.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
6-28-18 (accessed)
This French Town Has Welcomed Refugees for 400 Years
For centuries, the people of the mountain village of Chambon-sur-Lignon have opened their arms to the world’s displaced.
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7/8/18
The Napoleon the French Turned Their Backs On
by Alan Strauss-Schom
Why Napoleon III deserves their gratitude.
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