{"id":37114,"date":"2019-03-24T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37114"},"modified":"2019-12-18T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T16:22:11","slug":"qotd-france-and-the-nazi-final-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/03\/24\/qotd-france-and-the-nazi-final-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: France and the Nazi Final Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Less happy is the story of France. The Germans realized that the Vichy French were attached to assimilated French Jews, so they started by demanding only those foreign Jews who had come to France as refugees. There were a hundred thousand of these, and Marshal Petain of France said that they had \u201calways been a problem\u201d and he was glad to have \u201can opportunity to get rid of them\u201d (in his defense, he was under the impression that Jews sent to Germany would be \u201cresettled in the East\u201d). After this had been going on for a while, Eichmann figured that the French were on his side, and asked for permission to take the native French Jews as well. The French, having sent tens of thousands of stateless Jews to the concentration camps, were suddenly outraged that the Nazis would dare lift a finger against French Jews, and shut down the entire deportation program. I am sure the French count this as a moral victory nowadays, though it\u2019s a very selective sort of morality.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Alexander, <a href=\"http:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2017\/01\/30\/book-review-eichmann-in-jerusalem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Book review: Eichmann in Jerusalem&#8221;, <em>Slate Star Codex<\/em><\/a>, 2017-01-30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less happy is the story of France. The Germans realized that the Vichy French were attached to assimilated French Jews, so they started by demanding only those foreign Jews who had come to France as refugees. There were a hundred thousand of these, and Marshal Petain of France said that they had \u201calways been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,1117,1118,7,41,230],"tags":[457,1041,1332],"class_list":["post-37114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france","category-germany","category-history","category-quotations","category-ww2","tag-fascism","tag-holocaust","tag-vichy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9EC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53599,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37114\/revisions\/53599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}