For decades, the event was a taboo subject in France, with successive governments maintaining that the Vichy regime did not represent the official French Republic. A Nazi Roundup, Chaotically Evoked In 'La Rafle' - NPR
: French police, rather than German soldiers, carried out the mass arrest of approximately 13,152 Jewish individuals in Paris. La rafle
The roundup was a coordinated effort by German Nazi occupiers and the collaborationist . For decades, the event was a taboo subject