alex revision
September 25th, 2009, 11:58 AM
French military teaches recruits about Holocaust
9/25/2009
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/international-15/1253896807162940.xml&storylist=international
(AP) — PARIS - France's Defense Ministry has launched a program for educating recruits about the Holocaust and genocide.
The first session opened Friday at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Participants filed past walls etched with the names of thousands of French Jews deported during World War II.
A debate, films and a museum tour focused on the role of French officialdom under Nazi occupation.
France has western Europe's largest Jewish community.
In 1995 President Jacques Chirac was the first French leader to say the nation bore responsibility for deporting Jews under the Vichy regime. Some 76,000 French Jews, 11,000 of them children, were deported to Nazi concentration camps. Fewer than 3,000 survived.
9/25/2009
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/international-15/1253896807162940.xml&storylist=international
(AP) — PARIS - France's Defense Ministry has launched a program for educating recruits about the Holocaust and genocide.
The first session opened Friday at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Participants filed past walls etched with the names of thousands of French Jews deported during World War II.
A debate, films and a museum tour focused on the role of French officialdom under Nazi occupation.
France has western Europe's largest Jewish community.
In 1995 President Jacques Chirac was the first French leader to say the nation bore responsibility for deporting Jews under the Vichy regime. Some 76,000 French Jews, 11,000 of them children, were deported to Nazi concentration camps. Fewer than 3,000 survived.