Originally Posted by notinmybackyard

My father was French and I lived in France during the late 50s then off and on during the 60s. Later I lived there for a good part of the 70s. France has a large racist culture and even today when I go over there for business I can see that little has changed.

As for the French Resistance it never was the big movement that Hollywood would have you believe. If I still had the history books from when I was a student in France I would take a picture of the appropriate pages . Otherwise here's a link that should suffice. The truth behind the French Resistance myth