Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

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

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

The Dreyfus Affair is an exceptional case. It's true that here and there you can find some dregs of anti-Semitism, but the situation is the same in every country. 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. But, in all honesty, anti-Semitism in France has always remained on a minimal level, at the verbal level only. It never went as far as pogroms.

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War... 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's called a detail.

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.