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My eyes filled with tears. The president of France was standing at the ceremony marking 70 years since the biggest roundup of Jews during World War II carried out on French soil and taking responsibility for it. It was France, in effect, that sent the 13,000 Jewish children, women and men to their deaths in the Auschwitz concentration camp at that time, he said. But his most significant words were: “The...