France's Le Pen, evoking wartime Jewish arrests, re-opens old wounds

>PARIS (Reuters) - Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen drew protests from her political rivals and the Israeli government on Monday by denying the French state's responsibility for a mass arrest of Jews in Paris during World War Two.

>Two weeks before the first round of the election in which she is a frontrunner, Le Pen touched a raw nerve by reopening debate about the state's role in one of the darkest episodes in French history under the Nazi occupation.

>"I think France isn't responsible for the Vel d'Hiv," Le Pen said on Sunday, referring to the German-ordered roundup by French police of 13,000 Jews in July 1942.

>Most were crammed into the Velodrome d'Hiver cycling stadium, commonly known as the Vel d'Hiv, before being deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

>"I think that, in general, if there are people responsible, it is those who were in power at the time. It is not France," Le Pen said in an interview with media groups Le Figaro, RTL and LCI.

>Le Pen's rivals pounced on her comments, which could set back her attempts to clean up the image of her anti-immigration National Front and distance it from the anti-Semitic views of her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the party's founder.

>"Some people had forgotten that Marine Le Pen is the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen. They haven't changed," centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron told BFM television.

>The Israeli foreign ministry said it regretted that anti-Semitism "is raising its head again today".

>"This contradicts the historical truth as expressed in statements by French presidents who recognized the country’s responsibility for the fate of the French Jews who perished in the Holocaust," a ministry spokesman said.

>"Vel d'Hiv" was the top trending topic on Twitter in France on Monday, the first official day of campaigning for the election, whose first round is on April 23.

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oh vey, denying the shoah is just another shoa

You're late to the party, this is old news now.

Just heard about it today, looked through the catalog for any threads about it, didn't see it, hence this thread.

More like 6 million shoahs.

Talk about spin.

Fuck the media.

>"I think that, in general, if there are people responsible, it is those who were in power at the time. It is not France,"

I'll add to that: the victims were the jews at the time. Not all jews.

Cry about it on your wall faggets.

Seems like a pretty earnest statement.

Just open the archives and look.

macron will win!

>macron will win!
You want France to be completely fucked and cucked?

>Far Right
Based on reality instead of spin and propaganda, she's not Far Right. Anyone who stands up for their country are labelled as Far Right, Fascists and Xenophobes. Fuck of cucked Libtards.

if I wanted that id support a woman leader cuckboy

It truly baffles me how stupid and truly uneducated are the masses regarding WW2 in its entirety.

>be France, an Allied nation
>get invaded by Germany, lose most of your mainland territory
>occupied territory is a puppet-state, under the complete control of the German apparatus - Vichi France
>Allied France relocates to Africa, keeps on fighting the krauts as an Allied force
>Jews get deported by Vichi France, therefore it's the fault of all the French

Truly fucking delusional, if you ask me. And what's the most mind-boggling fact is that you can refute most of the media's claims by simply reciting real history that has been taught in school ever since WW2, but no, you can't do that or else you are an anti-semitic.

God fucking damnit, this world truly is lost.

True. But instead of supporting Fillon, you supported a literal cuck Macron.

she's right this thing happened in the occupied zone
but you know how the jews are, they also blame the railway company for "their" role in the holocaust

macron would lead to france's trump like obama did, think longterm.

Nah. She's far right.

I'll add to that: Vichy France was the lesser evil and it saved 75% of jews living there. If we did like the dutch by sending our governemnt to London, germans would have administered France directly and 80% of jews would have died like in Netherlands.

you can fuck off

I think you're right. That's the reason why I vote for LDP, the most cucked party in Serbia:
>pro-EU
>pro-NATO
>pro-LGBT
>pro-minority
>pro-immigration
>anti-Russian
>anti-nationalist
>would recognize Kosovo for EU and NATO accession
>considered a hero by goatfucking Albanians

Him coming to power is the only thing that can still revive Serbia, as Serbian people are only motivated by spite.

Trump lost the popular vote. And bigly.

Question. What has the deportation of jews in the 1940s got to do with current French politics and issues ?
Ahhh, sorry its just another MSM media campaign of blatant anti LePen propaganda. Lets bring up the French Revolution while we are at it, thats relevant to contempory issues as well.
Fucking jews, it always has to be about them.

The problem is we're apathetic nowadays. Spite no longer works.

go vote for a woman, become germanistan 2

based serb

whos the president again?

That's not how you save your country, user. You can't compare the political sphere in the US with the political sphere in the Balkan region. We have been governed by corrupt institutions ever since the commies took power after WW2, and the revolutions in '89 were nothing more but dust in the wind. Voting parties such as the one you described would bring nothing more but policy changes that would affect your nation in the long term, even thought that aforementioned party would be voted out in the next election cycle.

Also, voting for a party that would recognize Kosovo is fucking delusional. There's a big reason on why some countries in the EU don't recognize Kosovo and never will - the moment it gets recognized on an international scale, you'll have secesionist movements demanding the same thing in Romania, Spain, the UK and whatnot. The domino effect would be catastrophically effective.

The Serbs, as well as most of the Eastern European population, are indeed motivated by spite, and will go out only and only if the knife already touches the bone. That doesn't mean you have to vote for the most fucked up policy, you just have to wait for the current one to fall - and that's inevitable, given the rampant corruption.

>how many illegals voted for Hillary in the Democratic strongholds (California, Jew York etc)

There's a fucking reason the Electoral Collage exists. If you can't understand that reason, go read a fucking book and weep because your democracy will never be like that. The US is not a democracy, at the end of the day, it's a Constitutional Federal Republic.

>Le Pen
>far right

check'd

It baffles me as well on how the MSM portrays some of these movements, on a global scale. Le Pen is left economically, and center-right socially, yet all of the MSM calls her far-right. Same goes for Hoffer in Austria, Geert in the Netherlands and so forth - the moment you have an anti-imigration platform integrated in your campaign, that's the moment you get labelled as a "far-right" movement.

As I've said before, that's the mark of truly uneducated people - the ones that are gullible enough to be controlled by emotions only. They can't even pick up a book and see what's left or what's right, that's way too hard for them.

>mfw the right in Romania is actually left economically and left socially
>mfw the left in Romania is right economically and right socially

The axis is fucked up and that's because liberalism has turned into socialism in the last decades. True liberals are nowhere to be found, sadly. Just imagine what a liberal from the interbellum period would think of if he could see the liberal parties that govern nowadays. He would be mindfucked.

If you ever dare to say something positive about your ethnic group or take pride in it, and you're white, you're always going to be labeled far-right.

Holocaust is the greatest human invention of all time. The discovery of fire and the wheel didn't influence our lives as much as this shit

They'll keep trying to perpetuate this bullshit well into the following centuries.