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has a resonance
that goes beyond being Jewish.
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The Rothschilds
rose through the centuries
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and became a legend.
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Today, people have completely
forgotten that they're Jewish.
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Not a problem. Ever.
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No importance at all.
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Jews were always well received
in Bordeaux.
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Take the Perreires.
They were Portuguese Jews.
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The Gradis,
also Portuguese Jews.
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The Perreires owned
Château Palmer until 1938.
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And in 1938?
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Well, they sold everything.
The War was coming.
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And the family disappeared.
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The market for Bordeaux, at the end
of the War, at the late 40's,
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was European, but mostly English.
The UK.
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And during the War,
it was the Germans, right?
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The Germans, yes.
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So what happened during the War?
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Since the Baron was Jewish.
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- He fled.
- To London.
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- He went to London.
- With the Free French.
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And his wife?
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- H is wife was caught and deported.
- Deported.
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- She died.
- Died.
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- In a camp.
- Concentration camp.
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- Dachau?
- And she was a Catholic!
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How did merchants in 1940
distinguish
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between collaborating or not?
:54:37
Was selling wine to the Germans
a form of collaboration?
:54:41
No. It wasn't
considered collaborating.
:54:43
If we hadn't sold wine...
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- I say "we" because my family
sold to the Germans too -
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the Germans
would've pillaged it instead.
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So it was better to sell it to them.
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Even if they paid with our money.
Money they stole from us.