Vichy's antijewish laws: the status of Jews (1940-1944)

From autumn 1940 onwards, without explicit German requirement, the Vichy regime promulgated its own exclusion laws. The first "status of Jews", on 3 October 1940, legally defined the Jew and barred him from public office, the army, the press and teaching; a second status, in June 1941, intensified the exclusion and ordered the census and then the "aryanization" of property. A General Commissariat for Jewish Questions was established to implement this policy. Distinct from German Nuremberg laws but converging with them, this state antisemitic legislation materially and administratively prepared the roundups and deportation. This theme examines the genesis of these laws, their effects on daily life and the historiographical debate on the French state's own responsibility.

מקורים און רעסורסן

• L'État contre les Juifs. Vichy, les nazis et la persécution antisémite — Laurent Joly, 2018
• La France de Vichy, 1940-1944 — Robert O. Paxton, 1973
• Mémoire Juive & Éducation — Dominique Natanson ↗