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Wed 02 Feb 2009Court recognises France's role in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps
JEWISH GROUPS yesterday welcomed a ruling by the French Council of State, the country’s highest administrative tribunal, formally recognising the responsibility of the French state in the deportation of 76,000 Jews to Nazi death camps between 1942 and 1944. Fewer than 3,000 survived.
“The Conseil d’État recognises the error and responsibility of the state,” the court said in a written statement on Monday.
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