Complete the following sentence: France for a long time took the position that the republic had been dissolved when power was turned over to Pétain, but officially admitted in 1995 complicity in the deportation of 76,000 Jews during WWII. President Jacques Chirac, speaking at the site of the Vélodrome d'Hiver, where 13,000 Jews were murdered by the Nazis.
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