The administrative governor of the Champagne-Ardenne province Wednesday outlawed car registrations carrying the letters “SS”. Normally registration for all motor vehicles consists of two letters and up to five digits. The last two letters used in the area were SR and should normally have been followed by SS. Paul Bernard, the government-appointed governor, passed a special ordinance banning the two letters because “the sight of them would have been unbearable” to former resistance fighters and victims of Nazi persecution.
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