Un petit faux pas?

No Pasaran! provides a brief, and possibly fictitious, gaffe by French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy:

The French satirical magazine Le Canard Enchaine reported in its September 14th issue that during the visit of French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy to the new Holocaust museum in Jerusalem's Yad Vashem on September 8, he asked — while perusing maps of European sites where Jewish communities had been destroyed — whether British Jews were not also murdered. Needless to say, Douste-Blazy's question was met by his hosts with amazement. "But Monsieur le minister," Le Canard quoted the ensuing conversation, "England was never conquered by the Nazis during World War II."

The minister apparently was not content with this answer, which, according to the magazine, was given by the museum curator, and persisted, asking: "Yes, but were there no Jews who were deported from England?"

I've never heard of Le Canard, so I don't know if they're purely fiction, blended fact and fiction, or merely amusing slants on real news issues. Keep this in mind, your mileage may vary, apply salt as required, etc., etc., etc.