Thousands of French men, women and young people have visited a month-long exhibition here on German atrocities committed against French Jews and non-Jews during the Nazi occupation. The exhibit, held at the Pedagogical Museum, under the sponsorship of a committee set up by the French Ministry of Veterans Affairs, closed this week-end.
The exhibit reminds Frenchmen that the Nazis deported 120,000 persons from France on racial grounds and 100,000 for political reasons. Only 3,000 of the racial persecutees and 35,000 of the political prisoners ever returned from the Nazi concentration camps. The exhibit features photographs, documents, posters and other material which reveal what the Jews and non-Jews suffered at Buchenwald, the executions in France and elsewhere and the tortures applied to Jews and Maquis by the Gestapo.
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