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And one shouldn't forget that the people
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who rounded up the Jewish children in the Marais,
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where lots of Jews lived, were French--
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the Germans would've been happy to do it--
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but were French police, they were French police.
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And his father was denounced by a policeman, by a policeman.
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And after the war that policeman
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directed traffic at the market every Saturday,
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and the widow walked by and saw this man,
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knowing he had denounced her husband
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who had been taken away and killed.
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Now, in 1970 there was still this collective amnesia in France.