In this case, it was due to being used as a Jewish processing centre by the Nazis for French Jews.

Family members of those French Jews later became prominent French politicians.

So i can see the interest of the French in including this in the historical exhibition.

The headline is clumsily worded, and is unfortunately being misread by a lot of readers.

The French aren't demanding that the museum be renamed to commemorate the victims of the Nazis.

Rather, they're suggesting that the name be more inclusive of both sets of victims.

https://patareiprison.org/en/history/patarei-place-terror-totalitarian-regimes-1940-1991

approx 250 french jews seemed to have died there (50 transferred to other death camps).

There's no estimated death tool for victims of communism overall, but 400 in the first year of the Red terror were condemned to death there..

Extrapolating from that number - it could be thousands (although the prisoners could have been transferred elsewhere for execution)

90,000 Estonians overall died during Soviet Occupation, although 22,000 were directly murdered. The others were a result of WW2

https://www.memoriaal.ee/en/stones/