LEON BLUM: A SOCIALIST JEW WHO BECAME PRIME MINISTER OF FRANCE THREE TIMES
WAS THERE ANY OTHER NATION IN WHICH A FORMER PRIME MINISTER WAS ARRESTED WITH THE COLLUSION OF HIS FELLOW CITIZENS…MERDE TO ALL OF THEM…..RSK
André Léon Blum ( 9 April 1872 – 30 March 1950) was a French politician, usually identified with the moderate left, and three times the Prime Minister of France.
4 June 1936 – 22 June 1937 13 March 1938 – 10 April 1938- 16 -December 1946 – 22 January 1947
After his first election this is what one minister, Xavier Vallat, a right-wing Deputy and later Commissioner for Jewish Affairs in the Vichy wartime government), who said:
“Your coming to power is undoubtedly a historic event. For the first time this old Gallo-Roman country will be governed by a Jew. I dare say out loud what the country is thinking, deep inside : it is preferable for this country to be led by a man whose origins belong to his soil… than by a cunning talmudist”
In April 1943, while his neighbors and former friends held their tongues the Nazis deported Blum to Germany, where he was imprisoned in Buchenwald until April 1945.
As the Allied armies approached Buchenwald, he was transferred to Dachau, near Munich, and in late April 1945, together with other notable inmates, to Tyrol. Blum was rescued by Allied troops in May 1945. While in prison he wrote his best known work, the essay À l’échelle Humaine (“For all mankind”).
His brother René, the founder of the Ballet de l’Opéra à Monte Carlo, was arrested in Paris in 1942. He was deported to Auschwitz where, according to the Vrba-Wetzler report, he was tortured and killed in April 1943.
Leon Blum was then elected for his final term which lasted one month. He died in 1950. There is a Kibbutz in Israel named after him Kfar Blum.
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