Every day on Europe 1’s morning show, Olivier de Lagarde scrutinizes and analyzes the day’s press. Today, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp and the secrets of the big French bosses in Davos.
Auschwitz-Birkenau
“The Jews are a race that must be totally exterminated.”
The quote from Hans Frank, governor of Poland during the Second World War, was reproduced in the barracks that visitors to Auschwitz pass through, says Pierre Avril, one of Le Figaro’s special correspondents on site.
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of this camp, which has become the universal symbol of the Holocaust, the newspaper devotes no less than 6 pages to these commemorations which will undoubtedly be the last for the final survivors.
“The Jews must be totally exterminated.”
This was therefore the great design of this Reich. And 80 years after the liberation we are still trying to understand.
Adrien Sarlat made the visit with high school students.
In front of them, Dorota Kuczinska speaks in impeccable French, he says.
“There’s no point in giving too many figures or too much detail, they won’t remember them. It’s better to tell stories, you have a better chance of making an impression.
Like Dorota, 350 guides now provide tours in around twenty languages.
A transmission work that is not within everyone’s reach. Among new recruits, 5 to 6% resign within the first month, unable to bear the psychological weight of this memory journey.
“touch with your finger what man has been capable of doing to man”
But what are the 2 million annual visitors looking for here? During her 27-year career, Dorota has seen the profile of visitors evolve.
“First for families of victims, survivors or school groups, today a visit to the camp has become a must for foreign tourists passing through Poland.”
-At Auschwitz, historian Annette Wievorka finally sums up, “visitors experience what man has been capable of doing to man and what he could still do.”
Fascinating report in Le Figaro which ends on page 20 of the newspaper, with this interview with the historian Georges Bensoussan which makes the link with immediate news.
Question from Alexandre de Vecchio: “How do you analyze the accusation of genocide filed against Israel with the International Court of Justice? »
“To accuse the Jewish State of genocide is to turn the disaster that struck them against the Jews and in a perverse way,” Bensoussan responds. But above all it legitimizes in advance the disappearance of their state. Because this is indeed the ultimate objective of a machinery in which Arab discourse is reinforced by cultural leftism.”
“Here we are today, the custodians of a lesson in political darkness from start to finish,” he concluded. “Heir to a knowledge which, like the Ax which breaks the frozen sea within us, wrote Kafka, transforms the one who makes it his own”.
Politicians who don’t understand anything
Without any transition, head to Davos. Davos is of course the major annual meeting of the World Economic Ghota which ended this weekend. Jean Marc Vittori and Christophe Jakubyszyn from Les Echos made the trip. And you should read their long paper this morning which ultimately sums up quite well the state of mind of the leaders of the large global companies they met.
“We have the feeling or even the certainty that our politicians do not understand us,” laments the CEO of one of the main French banks.
Besides, they don’t understand anything. “Any president or 1is minister would be fired on the spot by his “board” if he presented such an unbalanced budget and if he was especially incapable of respecting his key performance indicators.”
The big industrialists also do not mince their words in the face of what they consider to be the technocratic madness of Europe. And Ursula van der Leyen did not reassure them. “Basically sums up one of them, she asks us to be resilient, that is to say, to stand our ground in the face of the Americans and the Chinese. No economy can develop with this leitmotif.”
Chocolat !
We’re even going to end with the news that is perhaps the most morally damaging this morning. It might seem anecdotal. She is only entitled to a brief moment in the Cross. And yet it is national honor that is at stake.
France is no longer world pastry champion. The competition took place this weekend near Lyon. 18 teams competed and it was the Japanese who won. The French team did well but had to face breakage problems when assembling the chocolate piece, the newspaper tells us.
Terrible disillusionment, betrayed by the tablet, let down by the cocoa… That’s what is called being chocolate.
