• oce 🐆@jlai.luOP
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        3 days ago

        From the article

        Marceau’s talent of mimicry also may have saved his own life during the war, when he ran into a unit of 30 German soldiers, Singer writes. The mimic pretended to be an advance guard of a larger French force and convinced the Germans to retreat

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      “Ackchyually”, I’m pretty sure “les justes” are non-jewish people that helped/saved jewish people during WW2.

      Marceau was jewish, not that this diminishes his actions, au contraire

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    Whatever what he and those Jewish kids would think of the genocide in Gaza today. How quickly we squander our hard-learned lessons…

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      TIL you can’t share something positive about a jewish person without this type of comment popping

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        Apparently remembering the heroes of the Holocaust and how much we value them for saving innocent lives doesn’t call for some amount of introspection about the genocide occuring now