40,000 mental patients died in France while under occupation
Willoughby, Geraldine
The story of how 40, 000 mental patients died in mental institutions in Occupied France, a number way above the yearly average, is one of the many untold stories of the 2nd World War. There is very little known about this period and French mental patients and also very little has been written about it. This is a taboo subject among the French who find it shameful to believe that they would have collaborated with the Occupiers by following thei...