Talk:Georges Bonnet

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Herschel Grynszpan
The page on Herschel Grynszpan claims that Bonnet offered to testify for the prosecution at Grynszpan's proposed trial in 1942, but there is no attribution for that claim. If Bonnet did indeed offer to testify in favor of the (spurious) Nazi theory that Grynszpan was an assassin for "World Jewry" who had killed Ernst vom Rath as a part of a plot to cause a war between Germany and France, then I think that should be in this article, but I would like to see a source for that claim before puttting it in. --A.S. Brown (talk) 03:26, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Got it! When you want something done, you got to do itself, as per usual. --A.S. Brown (talk) 16:31, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Position towards the "Jewish Question"
A new book which scientifically investigated the role of the German Foreign Ministry during the third Reich discloses that Bonnet, when he met with Ribbentrop after the anti Jewish pogromes of november 1938 in Germany, did not protest in any way against these violent incidences but revealed that France would be very interested to see the "Jewish Problem" solved, but that his country is not interested in getting any more jews from Germany, asked if Germany could not take "some measures" that no more Jews would come to France and finally that France was itself interested in getting rid of 10.000 Jews to somewhere.

Source:Das Amt und die Vergangenheit: Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik, Conze,Frei,Hayes,Zimmermann, 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Keratoplastik (talk • contribs) 17:52, 30 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Very interesting information that should be included if one could get the correct page numbers from Das Amt und die Vergangenheit. However, one should put this into context. In December 1938, when Bonnet met Ribbentrop the German government was pursing a policy of increasing oppressive discrimination and persecution against the Jews living in Germany, but genocide had not began. It was not until 1941 that the anti-Semitic policy of the German state turned genocidal. I might gather from your remark that you referring to Ribbentrop's visit to Paris in December 1938, since you mention that it was after the Kristallnacht of November 1938. In 1930s, there was a widespread xenophobic feeling in France that the French government was letting in too immigrants who were "stealing" jobs from the French, so Bonnet's remarks about solving the "Jewish Question" by preventing anymore German Jewish refugees from entering France were probably more related to that then anti-Semitism he might had held. The nationality of the 10, 000 Jews that Bonnet wanted to see expelled is not mentioned here, but I would venture a good guess that they were all refugees and immigrants to France, not French Jews. Please note that I am not trying to defend Bonnet here (yes, his attitude towards Jewish refugees was awful), but rather trying to ensure that this article is accurate by putting things in their proper context. What the Nazi regime was doing to the Jews in 1938 was quite different from what that regime was doing in 1941. The German state's anti-Semitic policies went from being extremely bad in 1938 to even worse by 1941.--A.S. Brown (talk) 21:19, 22 March 2015 (UTC)