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- ↑ Breiz da Zont, July, 1931, «C'est en fonction de leur résistance particulière à la conquête du territoire français par les idées dissolvantes qui émanent plus ou moins des Juifs : maçonnisme, laicisme, etc., que les Bretons ont été décimés au cours de la derniere guerre mondiale, plus de 200 000. Il est facile d'invoquer pour cette hécatombe des raisons militaires, mais rien ne fera contre ce fait que le répartiteur réel des troupes pendant toute la guerre fut le Juif Abrahami, né … dans le ghetto de Constantinople.»
- ↑ Daniel Leach, "Bezen Perrot: The Breton nationalist unit of the SS, 1943-5", e-Keltoi