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Honorary Aryans

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"A whirlwind of hatred swept through the city, turning every neighbor into a potential enemy." This is how Lucie, Marie-Louise, and Suzanne Stern see Paris under Nazi rule. The cousins were born into a wealthy Jewish family and grew up in the bourgeois atmosphere of early 20th-century Paris. Having married into the aristocracy and converted to Catholicism, they all became part of French high society and tried to forget their origins.

But with the arrival of the Nazis in June 1940, their carefully constructed world collapsed. From then on, the Marquise, Baroness, and Countess ceased to be considered not only French, but even human: their passports were stamped "Jewish," former friends quickly averted their gaze when they met, and their lives were in real danger. What to do with an identity they didn't choose? Should they trust the judgment of their close family friend, Marshal Pétain? Is there any hope of achieving the status of "honorary Aryans," free from discrimination and arrest? Damien Roger's family saga, based on true events, invites us to look at occupied France through the eyes of women who suddenly found themselves outsiders.
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