 They hid them in secret places or helped them get out of Vichy France.André Trocmé preached against discrimination as the Nazis were gaining power in neighbouring Germany and urged his Protestant Huguenot congregation to hide Jewish refugees from the Holocaust.In the early 21st century, there were approximately one million Protestants in France, representing some 2% of its population.<ref></ref> Most are concentrated in Alsace in northeast France and the Cévennes mountain region in the south, who still regard themselves as Huguenots to this day.