I do not know if "The Roundup" is a good film that had not already seen. The critics are fairly divided and far from unanimous : Some say it's a film you have to go, others that it was quite awkward. He should probably get his own opinion.
One thing bothers me in the comments on the roundup of the Vel d'Hiv, is the conclusion recently appeared (under the presidency of Jacques Chirac) constitutes a crime of France and the French, which seems to ignoring the unique historical context in which it took place, namely a country that has lost the war (a truce is not peace) and occupied by his conqueror and his diabolical agenda of domination and extermination, a state and an administration illegal and undemocratic (who benefited from the defeat to overthrow the National Assembly - which was huge and now enshrined in German: "Germany defeated on all fronts").
We must review the excellent documentary on Joachim Fest's Hitler ("Hitler - A Career") to collect the slow and resistible rise of Hitler. The most serious crimes were committed in consequence of that time in Germany first, then in Europe: they had to name cowardice, selfishness and blindness. This is a rather painful truth that it is better to forget. Hence a feeling of uneasiness which comes over us in reviewing our failure spread towards the world democratic than we defended at the time.
guilty nations (Germany and Japan) have paid their grave crimes by destroying their cities and killed countless civilians. The British and Russians have won the war thanks to their sacrifice and their courage. But we French? Admittedly, this loose collaboration with Germany was ultimately results in relative sparing of the French population (except for the inevitable Allied bombing release), including Jews (including two-thirds survived, one of the highest rates of survival of occupied Europe). In Poland, occupied without armistice that the Jewish population was decimated and the more it is evident that these are political and not military reasons that brought Hitler to treat France differently, and we know that this could change at any time.
General de Gaulle there is also no mistake that as soon as the victory, wanted to turn the page of collaboration faster by limiting the trial to key policymakers.
One can only be moved and shocked by the plight of Jews during World War II, and the attitude of "authorities" of the time that allowed this roundup, but for my part, and it is I think not contradictory, Indignation is my first for the signatories of the Munich agreement and the leaders of French and English by the time their cowardice that led to the 65 million war dead.
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