« On se trouve donc en présence d’une opération d’envergure, susceptible d’atteindre tous les appartements qui ont été pris à bail à Paris par des Juifs actuellement absents. On peut fixer approximativement à 4 000 le nombre de ces appartements. »
Effectivement « l’Opération Meuble » que semblent découvrir les fonctionnaires français est importante. Le Reich a décidé d’équiper avec les biens de juifs de l’Ouest (Pays-Bas, Belgique, France) les ménages allemands volontaires pour peupler les territoires conquis à l’Est par la Wehrmacht, ou ceux dont les logements ont été détruits par les bombardements anglo-américains. Un responsable allemand de l’opération meubles fait néanmoins la fine bouche :
In photos: Jewish museum shares moving images of 1941 Paris roundup
The newly discovered pictures, sent to The Connexion after our previous article on their discovery, show the reality behind the first mass arrest of Jewish people in France during World War Two
19 May 2021
May 14, 1941. Outside the Gymnase Japy in Paris, Jewish men, escorted by French police, were made to board buses that would take them on to prison camps in France before they were transported to AuschwitzBy Thomas Brent
A collection of newly discovered photos, now being exhibited outdoors in Paris, sheds light on the first mass arrest of Jewish people in France by French police during World War Two - an event known as the Rafle du Billet Vert (Green Ticket Roundup).
Serge Klarsfeld: Le combat pour la mémoire n est jamais gagné parismatch.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from parismatch.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
France s dark role in rounding up Jews: Previously-unseen pictures show men boarding a train in Paris watched by SS Final Solution chief after thousands were lured to routine registrations then arrested by French officials
The green ticket round-up saw Jews in Paris invited for a status review which appeared to be a formality
When they arrived, the Jews were immediately arrested and sent away to internment camps in France
They were held for as long as a year in the camps before they were sent to Auschwitz where they were killed
Photos of the round-up taken by a German soldier on a propaganda mission have been recently discovered