"Because you know, this is not an occupation we are forced to endure, but Nazification. Will we resist? Here, anti-Semitism is growing and beginning its destruction, it's awful. Certain shops as well as cafes and restaurants are forbidden to Jews. Their houses are plundered right before their eyes. Even yesterday, with Anise, walking near the Bois de Boulogne, where there are lots of houses belonging to Jews, as you know, we saw green punaises loading entire truckloads of furniture, objets d'art, and paintings, right under their owners' horrified eyes."
Claire Girard, August 1940 in Lettres de Claire Girard fusillée par les Allemands le 27 août 1944 [Letters of Claire Girard, who was shot by the Germans on August 27, 1944]
Re-edited by Guillaume Piketty, 2009