Interior Ministry: General administration Selected Records from the French National Archives: F1a Ministère de l'Intérieur/Administration Générale
Extent and Medium
8320 digital images, JPEG
Archival History
Archives nationales (France)
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Archives nationales (French National Archives). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in December 2021.
Scope and Content
The collection contains selections from the French Interior Ministry’s Delegation in the occupied zone, Department of Worship, and Interior Commission of Algiers documenting the status of Jews, religious worship, and deportations. Records include reports and circulars about the application of laws governing secret societies, the employment status of Jews, the operational status of Jewish organizations, descriptions of German-occupied France and anti-Jewish measures in occupied Europe, French attitudes towards obligatory labor service in Germany, the internment of Jews, and official French negotiations with Germany. The collection also includes records from the General Armistice Section documenting German issues and Italian questions.
System of Arrangement
The files are arranged by file number.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Archives nationales (France)
Corporate Bodies
- Vichy Regime
Subjects
- France--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- France--Politics and government--1940-1945--Sources.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France.
Genre
- Document