Talk:The Marais

I'd like to see some evidence that homosexual people lived in the Marais during or before World War II (we certainly weren't called "gays" then) or that French homosexuals were deported by the Nazis. This seems like a bit of retrospective assumption to me.

Further to that, it is not true that the Nazis "immediately" began deporting Jews from the Marais, or from Paris generally. Deportations did not begin until 1941, and these only involved Jews who were not French citizens. French Jews were not deported until 1944.

Finally, it was not "the Nazis" who did the rounding up and deporting from Paris. It was the French police. The Germans did not take custody of the deportees until they arrived at the transit camps at Drancy and elsewhere. The French police and civil servants collaborated with the Nazis throughout the occupation.