As if I needed more proof that France is lost

A few years ago, I had a conversation with my daughter and predicted once the last survivors of the holocaust had passed away there would be those who would attempt to re-write history, and would do so well, that many will look at the Third Reich and claim their ideology was not without its redeeming qualities. She couldn’t imagine a world where it could be possible.

Last week, I was in the children’s section of a bookstore at lunch time and overheard a woman ask the sales clerk for help in locating a WW2 story for her daughter to read so that she could learn how the German people suffered during the war years. I had to leave the store or I might have strangled the woman. There is no suffering the German people endured individually or collected that could measure up to a life eeked out in Bergen-Belsen, Börgermoor, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dieburg, Esterwegen, Flossenburg, Gundelsheim, Neuengamme, Papenburg, Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen, Sachsenburg and those are just the names of the concentration camps established by the Nazis in Germany.

Today at Ynet News I read this:

It appears that there are still some people who refuse to recognize that the dark era of cooperation between the French and the Nazis is over. A scandal broke in France in recent days when a newspaper in the east of the country refused to publish a notice in memory of a French Jew, a Holocaust survivor of the Auschwitz death camps.

Fred Wolfson died in 1966, at 43 years of age. On the 40th anniversary of his death his family asked to publish a notice in his memory stating that "He passing was due to complications caused by the barbaric Nazis."

The important newspaper, L'Est Republican refused to publish the notice stating that they refrain from publishing notices that entail "political or ideological content." Instead of the original text, the newspaper suggested writing "the trauma of the death camps."

When a French newspaper refuses to publish a memorial notice on the 40th anniversary of a holocaust survivor because it reads “"He passing was due to complications caused by the barbaric Nazis" and justifies it by saying that they do not publish notices which contain “political or ideological content” France is lost. The family is choosing to fight back and good on them; but if they are French Jews, they need to leave the country immediately - as in right now.