What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.
Jean-Marie Le PenHowever, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again.
Jean-Marie Le PenThe Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
Jean-Marie Le PenPolitical rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.
Jean-Marie Le PenMy 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.
Jean-Marie Le PenI 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.
Jean-Marie Le Pen