After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.
Jean-Marie Le PenThe Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
Jean-Marie Le PenMy father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.
Jean-Marie Le PenThe government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.
Jean-Marie Le PenIn France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in a country of 550,000 square kilometres... If the Germans had carried out mass executions across the country as the received wisdom would have it, then there wouldn't have been any need for concentration camps for political deportees.
Jean-Marie Le Pen