The French law dated 7 Thermidor Year II (25 July 1794) stipulates that every citizen should be able to be informed of whatever had been done in their name. This was the origin of the public service of the National Archives of France, a body created …
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It took France more than half a century to start owning up to its collaboration in the Holocaust during World War II. In 1995, President Jacques Chirac formally admitted that his fellow countrymen had willingly helped to round up Jews before sending them to be murdered in Nazi concentration camps. President Emmanuel Macron recalled Chirac’s apology during…
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