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between Perpignan and the sea, places like Argeles and all of that.
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That was what was given to them on the plateau--
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on the platter, is to make xenophobia part of state policy.
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Third, and this is a subset but it should stand by itself,
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is anti-Semitism, that the French Vichy regime--
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let me interject the fact that it's only in November of 1942 that the
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Germans occupy the Vichy zone,
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because the resistance is mobilizing--
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that the French put in laws about Jews,
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depriving Jews of rights that the Germans didn't even ask them to do,
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in terms of saying, "well, if you are Jewish because
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your grandmother or your grandfather was Jewish"--