'Marc Bloch was persecuted not only by the Nazi occupiers, but also by the French state'

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In an interview with Le Monde, World War II specialist Alya Aglan analyzes the symbolic reparation represented by the entry of historian and French Resistance fighter Marc Bloch into the Panthéon on June 23, 82 years after his arrest, torture and execution by the Gestapo in Lyon.