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For decades, the event was a taboo subject in France, with successive governments maintaining that the Vichy regime did not represent the official French Republic. A Nazi Roundup, Chaotically Evoked In 'La Rafle' - NPR

: About 7,000 of those arrested—including over 4,000 children —were held for five days at the Vélodrome d'Hiver , an indoor cycling stadium near the Eiffel Tower. La rafle

: French police, rather than German soldiers, carried out the mass arrest of approximately 13,152 Jewish individuals in Paris. For decades, the event was a taboo subject