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May 28, 2009
Protocol and security considerations
"French surrender"?
"Sarkozy: Still President of France"?
So many possible tag lines - only one actual tag line - as the French reverse themselves on their decision to fete Barack H. Obama at Normandy while turning their noses up at the one living head of state who had a direct hand in saving their sorry asses from the Germans.
Again.
But Palace officials maintained that no formal invitation to Normandy had ever been received and that protocol and security considerations made it impossible for the Royal Family to invite themselves or turn up on the beaches unannounced.
I can't see why that should stop anyone. It is not as though we needed an invitation from the French the last time we turned up.
Related: Life for the Sarkozy and Bruni families during the war makes for interesting reading. For example, Sarkozy's father fled to Germany from Hungary in the face of the Russian advance. In Canada, we call this sort of thing "multiculturalism".
Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 28, 2009 06:24 AM
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The article is very unclear about Bruni's father but attempts to smear him by insinuating that he was a fascist.
It says that his family had close ties to the Fascists.
There is no mention of any ties he had personally with the Fascists.
It goes on to say that he spent the war free of military service and unmolested by the government.
The implication is that they left him alone because he was a collaborator of some sort. But it says nothing clear at all.
As for Szarkozy, his mother was a French woman, whose own father was born Jewish. This placed the family in danger of deportation by the Nazis (who murdered over 50 of Szarko's maternal relatives in Salonika).
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Szarko in Wikipedia
Although Benedict Mallah converted to Catholicism, he and his family nonetheless had to flee Paris and take refuge in a small farm in Corrèze during World War II to avoid being arrested and delivered to the Germans.
During the Holocaust, many of the Mallahs who stayed in Salonica or moved to France were deported to concentration and extermination camps. In total, 57 family members were murdered by the Nazis.[8]
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BRUNI in the mailonline
"....her stepfather, Alberto Bruni Tedeschi, whose family firm had close links with Benito Mussolini's murderous regime during the Second World War.
...a rich industrialist whose official biography makes no mention of military service, instead suggesting that he spent the war years composing classical music, and especially operas.
....There was never any suggestion that his luxurious life in a villa near Turin was ever troubled by the Italian Fascists or, indeed,by Nazi allies and later occupiers."
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at May 29, 2009 05:30 PM
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