![]() ![]() If he had stayed there, he might well have been one of the 50,000 Jews deported from the city and exterminated. From June 1940 to January 1944, with Nazi forces occupying France, the Jewish novelist Léon Werth - an unclassifiable writer who had published books of art criticism, political essays, journalism and travel writing, in addition to 11 novels - stayed in his wife’s country home outside a small village called Saint-Amour, in the zone under the direct control of Pétain and his collaborationist government in Vichy.
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