France

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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.