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31/08/2010French teacher 'suspended for too much Holocaust'

A Jewish French history teacher said Tuesday that she had been suspended for spending too much time teaching her pupils about the Holocaust and for organising trips to former Nazi death camps.

A lawyer acting for Catherine Pederzoli, a 58-year-old secondary teacher in the eastern town of Nancy, said her client had been accused by administrators of teaching the World War II massacres with insufficient "neutrality".

"If this teacher had been a Christian, no-one would have accused her of brain-washing," alleged lawyer Christine Tadic. "Isn't it the case that this teacher's fault is to have been Jewish?"

Nancy local education authorities were not immediately available to respond to the charge, but a report compiled by school inspectors revealed that they did have concerns over Pederzoli's teaching of the Holocaust.

The report, compiled last month, alleged the teacher took up too much time preparing pupils for annual school trips to Poland and the Czech Republic to visit sites like the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.

A copy of the report, seen by AFP, accuses Pederzoli of "lacking distance, neutrality and secularism" in teaching the Holocaust and of manipulating her charges through a process of "brain-washing".

In December some of the teacher's pupils staged a protest during a visit to the Henri-Loritz High School by Education Minister Luc Chatel, complaining that the number of places on the Holocaust field trips had been reduced.

Authorities suspect Pederzoli of inciting the protest.

Tadic said that her client had organised the trips without facing any complaints for 15 years before she found herself unfairly targeted by a new school management team that arrived in 2007.

The lawyer lodged a complaint on Tuesday seeking a court injunction to annul the suspension. Judges have two weeks to make a ruling.


© 2010 AFP


9 reactions to this article

Anonymous posted: 2010-09-01 04:03:34

There's gotta be extenuating circumstances to this.
Perhaps the teacher was ignoring other subjects such as reading, writing, and arithmetic while preaching...I mean teaching the holocaust.

And the teacher is Jewish? No, it must a coincidence...right?

It makes sense that this teacher believes that only the holocaust should be taught in school. Therefore she put it into practice.
It's the most important subject after all.

Mannstein posted: 2010-09-01 19:22:10

There's no business like shoa business.

Brett posted: 2010-09-02 16:33:06

Indeed Mannstein, the gift that keeps on giving...........

John posted: 2010-09-03 05:01:53

I'm curious... has the town of Nancy experienced an increase in its Muslim population lately? Just wondering.

fed up posted: 2010-09-03 09:41:19

65 years after the war and the jewish people are still crying nothing can be cahnged and the dead are still dead and the German people are still being dealt the guilt card. I guess it's true God forgives they don't

Koldo posted: 2010-09-04 02:19:52

The industry of the holocaust, is very big business like Norman Finkelstein demonstrated in his book. Imagine, a jew researching

Koldo posted: 2010-09-04 02:20:41

The industry of the holocaust, is very big business like Norman Finkelstein demonstrated in his book. Imagine, a jew researching

frank carson posted: 2010-09-04 11:31:58

the "holocaust" is nothing but a brand name exploited for finacnial gain by unscrupulous people.
yes the jews were mistreated in the concentration camps just like many other people from differant ethnic and religious origins it wasnt solely a issue of being jewish.

up to this day there has been NO hard evidence of homicidal gas chambers in any of the so called death camps, the so called homicidal gas chamber in auschwitz is nothing but a creative reconstruction of the rumours of these gas chambers being in operation.during that time period.

autopsies were performed by british medical staff in bergen belsen when it was liberated to find out how they died and it was found that the large majority died from disease namely typhus with starvation, beatings, shoottings also being the cause of so many dying.

the only gas chambers that were in the camps were for disinfecting of clothing and materials with zyklon b.

the data is all there for anyone that wants to find it but most wont cos they are brainwashed to believe the jewish propaganda.

GreekForTruth posted: 2010-09-10 00:20:50

Hear Hear!!

9 reactions to this article

Anonymous posted: 2010-09-01 04:03:34

There's gotta be extenuating circumstances to this.
Perhaps the teacher was ignoring other subjects such as reading, writing, and arithmetic while preaching...I mean teaching the holocaust.

And the teacher is Jewish? No, it must a coincidence...right?

It makes sense that this teacher believes that only the holocaust should be taught in school. Therefore she put it into practice.
It's the most important subject after all.

Mannstein posted: 2010-09-01 19:22:10

There's no business like shoa business.

Brett posted: 2010-09-02 16:33:06

Indeed Mannstein, the gift that keeps on giving...........

John posted: 2010-09-03 05:01:53

I'm curious... has the town of Nancy experienced an increase in its Muslim population lately? Just wondering.

fed up posted: 2010-09-03 09:41:19

65 years after the war and the jewish people are still crying nothing can be cahnged and the dead are still dead and the German people are still being dealt the guilt card. I guess it's true God forgives they don't

Koldo posted: 2010-09-04 02:19:52

The industry of the holocaust, is very big business like Norman Finkelstein demonstrated in his book. Imagine, a jew researching

Koldo posted: 2010-09-04 02:20:41

The industry of the holocaust, is very big business like Norman Finkelstein demonstrated in his book. Imagine, a jew researching

frank carson posted: 2010-09-04 11:31:58

the "holocaust" is nothing but a brand name exploited for finacnial gain by unscrupulous people.
yes the jews were mistreated in the concentration camps just like many other people from differant ethnic and religious origins it wasnt solely a issue of being jewish.

up to this day there has been NO hard evidence of homicidal gas chambers in any of the so called death camps, the so called homicidal gas chamber in auschwitz is nothing but a creative reconstruction of the rumours of these gas chambers being in operation.during that time period.

autopsies were performed by british medical staff in bergen belsen when it was liberated to find out how they died and it was found that the large majority died from disease namely typhus with starvation, beatings, shoottings also being the cause of so many dying.

the only gas chambers that were in the camps were for disinfecting of clothing and materials with zyklon b.

the data is all there for anyone that wants to find it but most wont cos they are brainwashed to believe the jewish propaganda.

GreekForTruth posted: 2010-09-10 00:20:50

Hear Hear!!

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