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| illegal on account of the fact that he was a Yugoslav national and
that his case could only be treated under Yugoslav law which made no
distinction between Jews and Aryans. I want to add: He first defended his view
point before the tribunal in 1941, and I want to stress that he was not
arrested until 1944, exactly 10 days after the visit we had by Mr. Sandre; I
want to say also that if they had arrested him only on account of the fact that
he was Jewish, then they could have arrested him right from the start —
they knew where he was, everybody knew his address — they could have come
to fetch him at the beginning when the anti-Jewish measures started in southern
France. |
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REDIRECT EXAMINATION
MR. MANDELLAUB: Do you remember
when the action against the Jews started in the unoccupied zone of France?
WITNESS CELAP: The law against the Jews was promulgated on 22 July
1941. That applies to the non-occupied zone. In the occupied zone, the
anti-Jewish measures started almost right after the arrival of the German
troops, that is, in October or November 1940.
Q. Do you remember the
summer of 1943, August, when mass demonstrations were made all over France in
the occupied zone against the Jews?
A. Yes, I remember.
Q. And
Mr. Rothschild was not arrested then?
A. No, he was near Monte Leman at
that time, and he was not even in hiding. |
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