"France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose."

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"France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose."

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"Everyone sees drama from his own perspective."

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"As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior."

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"I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself."

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"There wasn't anti-Semitism in France."

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"You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so."

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"If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail."

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