[1312throwaway]

I almost forgot a more recent and shocking example well after WWII. The general strike of October 17th 1961 [0] called upon by the Algerian FLN as a demonstration for independence... Dozens of thousands joined, and hundreds were drowned by the police and thousands detained (then deported) in the same locations that the nazi regime used (mostly stadiums). All this under the orders of Maurice Papon [1], who was a higher-up nazi collaborator in the police during WWII.

Please keep such examples (merely isolated anecdotes in a sea of troubling events) in mind when considering there's aspects of history we are not taught in schools and in mass media. If you're from the USA, i heard good things about Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Papon

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_Un...