ABSTRACT
Works on anti-Semitism in contemporary France almost always begin with World War Two, and the role Vichy played in assisting the Nazis rid Europe of Jews. 1 Over 75,000 Jews were deported from France in the early 1940s, most of them immigrants of Eastern European origin. Packed into cattle cars and sent to Poland, the vast majority of these people never returned, but ended their lives in death camps created by the architects of genocide who served Hitler's campaign. 2
