Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives

• The Section for Enquiry and Control
• SEC

• EHRI Corporate Bodies
• Corporate Body
• Updated 1 decade ago

Founded in 1942-08-05

Police aux Questions Juives, a brutal, violent, and corrupt group, was transformed on 1942-08-05 into the Section d’Enquête et de Contrôle, a more neutral name, set up by Pierre Laval. In spite of its supposed respect for legality, the PQJ and the SEC were only the more extreme forms of typical behavior by the parent Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives. It engaged in spying on inhabitants, intercepting mail, monitoring telephone calls, preventing music by Jewish composers from being performed, and asking the police to rid the town of Vichy of Jews.

• General Union of the Israelites of France
• UGIF

• EHRI Corporate Bodies
• Corporate Body
• Updated 9 years ago

Founded in 1941-11-29

In 1941-11-29 a Vichy Law established the Union Générale des Israélites de France, a national Jewish representation, with separate branches in the northern and southern zones. Among the various reasons given by Vichy for the establishment of this representation was the increased poverty resulting from diverse anti-Jewish measurements. At any rate this was advanced as one of the reasons by those Jews who chose to lead this Vichy creation. Indeed the problem was serious. The suffering Jewish population could only call on the network of immigrant organizations, operating semi-legally or illega...

• Vichy Regime

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• Corporate Body
• Updated 8 years ago

Founded in 1940-06-22

Following the German defeat of France in 1940-05, French and German officials signed an armistice on 1940-06-22. Under its terms, northern France came under direct German occupation. Southern France remained unoccupied and was governed by a French administration, headquartered in the city of Vichy. In July the French National Assembly voted to suspend the constitution of the Third Republic and placed the new ‘Vichy regime’ under the leadership of the aging Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain. Officially neutral, Vichy France collaborated closely with Germany. In closely patterned on that of Germa...