A vicious attack on Jews appears in the current issue of Rivarel, a newspaper supporting former Marshal Philippe Potain, now serving a life sentence for treason to France during the Nazi occupation. The paper says that the Alliance Israelite Universelle, leading French Jewish organization is working for the achievement of Jewish world domination. The paper also defends the Nazis, declaring that “the Hitler regime killed only 1,500,000 Jews, not six million.”
President Vincent Auriol has agreed to sponsor a memorial for the 6,000,000 Jews who died during the Nazi regime, it was announced today. The memorial will be erected in the heart of Paris by the Jewish Documentation Center. President Auriol told the delegation which requested his sponsorship that his “deepest sympathy” has always gone out to Jewry for its suffering during the occupation.
A number of Jewish graves in the cemetery at Bagnoux, near Paris, were reported today to have been desecrated. The Union of Jewish Societies is taking the matter up with the authorities and is asking for a thorough police investigation.
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