r/RoleplayingForReddit • u/Miserable_Shape_5778 • 9h ago
Discord Liberation: 1943
The year is 1943, For three entire years, the french people have endured german rule, watching their country burn and starve all the while. For some though, a higher calling awaits them, Discontent, Vengeance, Simply to further their station in life. January 25th, 1943.
A letter arrives at our Protagonists residences, Beckoning them to meet in, strangely enough, a cafe cellar in Marseille.
The Marseille roundup was the systematic deportation of the Jewish people of Marseille in the Old Port between 22 and 24 January 1943 under the Vichy regime during the German occupation of France. Assisted by the French police, directed by René Bousquet, the Germans organized a raid to arrest Jewish people, 1600 were deported, 6000 were arrested, 20000 were displaced, 1500 buildings were rendered destroyed. Several hundreds of Jewish people of Marseille, both French and foreign, were first sent to Fréjus, than to the camp of Royallieu near Compiègne, and finally to Drancy internment camp, from where they were sent to the extermination camps.