There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again.

I have no idea what `classic anti-Semitism' is. I'm not familiar with this term. I don't know where it comes from and what connection it has to France and what is occurring here. There wasn't anti-Semitism in France. An isolated incident can always happen. When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism. In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.