The biographer of Jacques Cousteau uncovered evidence that the late underwater explorer harbored anti-Semitic attitudes. In a letter written 58 years ago during the wartime rule of France’s pro-Nazi Vichy government, Cousteau wrote to a friend that he and his family could find nowhere suitable to live in Marseilles. “There will be no decent apartment available until we have kicked out all these ignoble yids who are burdening us,” wrote Cousteau, who died two years ago.
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