Vincent Reynouard: Our National Memory Confiscated
Who knows the date of April, 4th (1943)? That day, Paris and its suburbs suffered severe bombing that hit innocent civilians and caused more civilian casualties than the events of November, 13 2015. In this editorial, Vincent Reynouard says, based on documentation, these terrible hours: death is striking, the hard work of the rescuers trying to save from death the buried, the heroic exploits of some, the ordeal of identifying the victims ... "it was the war" was the common answer as an excuse for that tkind of ordeal. If it was true, then today, one would remember, on behalf of Memory, as a necessary evil. But the opposite happens: the amnesia is cultivated. Based on the speeches made at the time by the religious authorities, Vincent Reynouard explains why ...
