Document shows ex-French leader's anti-Semitism

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Famed French Holocaust historian Serge Klarsfeld is photographed in his Paris office, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010, holding a recently uncovered 1940 document. Klarsfeld said the document provides new proof of how Nazi-occupied France's wartime leader Philippe Petain ordered his government to persecute Jews. Klarsfeld says the "important" document includes personal notes by Petain, describing how authorities should target Jews, notably by keeping them out of public office and bar them from working in schools. Marshal Philippe Petain, who headed the 1940-1944 collaborationist Vichy regime, was found guilty of treason and imprisoned on an island off the Atlantic coast until his death in 1951. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)


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