"many citizens of Orleans believed that certain Jewish shopkeepers engage in white-slavery racket-using trap doors in their dressing rooms down which victims were dropped into cellars to be drugged."

"many citizens of Orleans believed that certain Jewish shopkeepers engage in white-slavery racket-using trap doors in their dressing rooms down which victims were dropped into cellars to be drugged." ( nytimes.com )

submitted 2019-04-26T18:16 by mememeyou

4 comments

SavageSeasons 2019-04-26T23:31

Isn't that "Shanghai-ing" someone?

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followthedolla 2019-04-26T21:29

Typical tricks

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TraditionalCode0 2019-04-26T19:43

Read up on the history of what it meant to be "Shanghai'ed", especially out of San Fransisco. Realize that trafficking was a pirate's businesss and lifestyle/culture. Pirates were naturals as the world's first 'naval intelligence' with a global network. And who ran all that?

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mememeyou 2019-04-26T19:10

Review of the book mentioned by the NYT in headline; Rumor in Orleans : In May 1969, Orleans, France (pop. 88,000) was swept by a grotesque -- and entirely groundless -- rumor: the Jews were abducting miniskirted maidens into the white slave trade; hapless victims, drugged by hypodermics, were vanishing from the town's fashionable boutiques, spirited away via a secret network of underground tunnels.

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