Prior to World War II there were fewer than 17 million Jewish people on Earth.
Prior to World War II there were fewer than 17 million Jewish people on Earth. More than a third of them were murdered in the Holocaust. To this day, over three-quarters of a century after the end of the fucking Nazi genocide, the world Jewish population has still not reached pre-war levels. --On This Day in History Shit Went Down: July 16, 1942-- Antisemitism is alive and well in France (and everywhere, really). With roughly half a million people, France has the largest Jewish population in Europe. It’s also the largest European source of Jewish immigrants to Israel; they’re leaving a long history of being treated like shit by their countrymen. In the spring of 1940, the German blitzkrieg rolled over France like they were a bunch of cheese-eating surrender monkeys. I stole that from The Simpsons. Anyway, the Germans didn’t occupy all of France right away. They designated a “free zone” in the south. The leadership was based in the city of Vichy, so the region was named Vichy France. An...