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Re: Jacques Cousteau's War Record:hero or Vichy?
Posted by: Brian Donald ()
Date: September 09, 2003 03:39PM

<HTML>Cousteau was reputed to be ant-Semitic and pro- Vichy which tended to go together, although not exclusively so.But Michael Curtis'ss masterly 'Verdict on Vichy' book published by Wiedenfield and Nicholson-London 2002--price £20- says this on Monsieur Cousteau-page 229:
'Many...including suprisingly, Jacques Cousteau, regarded anti-Semitism in its virulent or more moderate forms as the key to dealing with the problems of France.'</HTML>

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