'Emmanuel Macron has announced that Marshal Philippe Pétain, the Nazi collaborator whose administration helped deport of tens of thousands of French Jews to death camps, will be honoured a centenary tribute because he "was a great soldier in World War One."'
More here at the JC
https://www.thejc.com/news/world/shock-emmanuel-macron-announces-french-nazi-marshal-p%C3%A9tain-honoured-first-world-war-service.France's recent history of antisemitism is well documented but has been brushed over by the post second world war French. Somehow I doubt that the antisemitic, by at least one of the IHRA examples, BBC will be disconcerted by the Macron decision.
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