Resistance: When the French clergy saved the Jews in the course of the Second World War | EUROtoday

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In 1940 defeat France, the clergy welcomes Marshal Pétain as a Savior. But when the big roundups started in the summertime of 1942, Protestant pastors and Catholic prelates reached deportations. Their phrases break the silence of establishments and feed the flame of resistance, whereas faculties and convents open their doorways to Jewish refugees.
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