#5 France. Vichy, the Resistance and the "Jewish Question"

France was one of the victors of World War I and a safe haven for many political and Jewish refugees in the 1930s. The Germans attacked and defeated the French in 1940. Anti-Semitism became a core element not only of German policy and propaganda, but also of the collaborationist government under Marshal Pétain. We talk with historian Renée Poznanski about how the anti-Semitic idea of a "Jewish question" influenced how Jews were persecuted in France and how the country remembered the occupation after the war.