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only certified orphans could be given exit visas,
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and thus because you couldn't prove
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that the parents had already died in the death camps,
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they would not allow the Jewish children to be exiled,
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to be refugees in the United States.
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And Laval and Bousquet, both of whom were frenetic
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anti-Semites, knew this very well.
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So, essentially they just condemned them to their fate
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and the children couldn't leave.
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And more than five weeks
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following the Allied invasion of Normandy,
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which as you know was on the 6th of June, 1944,