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There are between 483,000 and 600,000 Jews in France making French Jews the world's third largest Jewish community.
In 2009, France's highest court, the council of state issued a ruling recognising the state's responsibility in the deportation of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II. The report cited "mistakes" in the Vichy regime that had not been forced by the occupiers, stating that the state "allowed or facilitated the deportation from France of victims of anti-Semitism".
Read more about this topic: The Holocaust In France
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