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According to Wullschlager, " he speed with which France collapsed astonished everyone: the French army, with British support, capitulated even more quickly than Poland had done " a year earlier, even though Poland had been attacked by both Germany and the Soviet Union.
" Shock waves crossed the Atlantic ... as Paris had until then been equated with civilization throughout the non-Nazi world.
" Yet the attachment of the Chagalls to France " blinded them to the urgency of the situation.
" Many other well-known Russian and Jewish artists eventually sought to escape: these included Chaim Soutine, Max Ernst, Max Beckmann, Ludwig Fulda, author Victor Serge and prize-winning author Vladimir Nabokov, who although not Jewish himself, had a " passionate interest " in Jews and Israel.
Russian author Victor Serge described many of the people living temporarily in Marseilles who were waiting to emigrate to America:
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