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The Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs (French: Commissariat général aux questions juives; C.G.Q.J.) was a special administration established in March 1941 by the collaborationist Vichy government of France in order to introduce anti-Jewish legislation.

History

While anti-Jewish legislation had already been introduced by the Vichy regime by October 1940,^[1] the creation of the C.G.Q.J. was initiated by the German occupiers. Theodor Dannecker, Judenreferent in France, called in his memoir for the establishment of a "Jewish central office" on 21 January 1941.^[2] The C.G.Q.J. was founded by the law of 29 March 1941,^[3] with Xavier Vallat as Commissioner-General, followed by Louis Darquier de Pellepoix in May 1942.^[2]

The organization was responsible for proposing all legislative measures concerning Jews to the Vichy government, such as the confiscation of Jewish property in France.^[4] The Commissariat also introduced discriminatory measures against Romani people, likewise targets of Nazi racial policies.^[5]

After Darquier de Pellepoix was expelled from office on 26 February 1944, Charles du Paty de Clam was appointed Commissioner-General on 1 March 1944, mainly because he was the son of Alfred Dreyfus' accuser, Armand du Paty de Clam. Accused of passivity and disinterest towards the aryanisation process, he was quickly replaced with Joseph Antignac on 17 May 1944.^[6]

By spring 1944, the Commissariat was dismissed as ineffective by French antisemitic newspapers: the SS had to conduct deportations practically on their own during this period and communications between the Judenreferat and Vichy virtually ceased. Germans had therefore to rely on one source of collaboration to carry on the Holocaust in France: the paramilitary Milice.^[6]

Approximately 2,500 people were employed by the Commissariat-General between 1941 and 1944.^[4] The organization was eventually disbanded on 17 August 1944, followed by the Liberation of Paris two days later.^[2]

List of Commissioners-General

Xavier Vallat (29 March 1941 – 8 May 1942)
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix (8 May 1942 – 26 February 1944)
Charles du Paty de Clam (1 March 1944 – 17 May 1944)
Joseph Antignac (17 May 1944 – 17 August 1944), with the title "Secretary-General".^[7]

Bibliography

Joly, Laurent (2006). Vichy dans la "solution finale". Grasset. ISBN 978-2246638490.
Marrus, Michael Robert; Paxton, Robert O. (1981). Vichy France and the Jews. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0804724999.

References

^ Bruttmann, Tal. « La mise en œuvre du statut des Juifs du 3 octobre 1940 », Archives Juives, vol. vol. 41, no. 1, 2008, pp. 11-24.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Commissariat général aux questions juives et Service de restitution des biens des victimes des lois et mesures de spoliation (1/3)". FranceArchives. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
^ "Journal officiel de la République française. Lois et décrets". Gallica. 1941-03-31. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
^ ^a ^b Joly, Laurent. « Postuler un emploi auprès du commissariat général aux Questions juives (1941-1944). Antisémitisme d’État et crise de recrutement dans la fonction publique des années noires », Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, 2016/3 (No 63-3), p. 163-185.
^ Kenrick, Donald; Puxon, Grattan (1995). Destins gitans: des origines à la "solution finale" (in French). Calmann-Lévy. pp. 130–37. ISBN 9782070735501.
^ ^a ^b Marrus, Michael Robert; Paxton, Robert O. (1995). Vichy France and the Jews. Stanford University Press. p. 334. ISBN 9780804724999.
^ Joly, Laurent (2011-04-20). L'antisémitisme de bureau (in French). Grasset. p. 552. ISBN 9782246785125.

Vichy France

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Prelude

Beginnings

Participants

Governments

Parties and
organizations

Legal and
treaties

Policy &
politics

Press and
propaganda

Antisemitic publications
Censorship under the occupation^[fr]
Underground media in German-occupied France
Freedom of the Press Ordinances of 1944^[fr]
Le Juif et la France
Maréchal, nous voilà !
Newspapers confiscated for collaboration^[fr]
Office français d'information
Press: L'Alerte^[fr]
L'Appel
Aujourd'hui
Le Cahier jaune^[fr]
Le Cri du peuple^{[fr; it]}
Combats^[fr]
Documents maçonniques^[fr]
L'Émancipation nationale^[fr]
La France^[fr]
France, revue de l'État nouveau^[fr]
Ici la France^[fr]
Idées^[fr]
Je suis partout
Revivre^[fr]
Révolution nationale^[fr]
La Semaine^[fr]
L'Union française^[fr]

Territory

French North Africa	French Algeria Morocco Tunisia

French West Africa	Ivory Coast Dahomey Sudan Guinea Mauritania Niger Senegal Upper Volta Togoland

French Equatorial Africa	Chad Middle Congo Ubangi-Shari Cameroon

Asia & Oceania	French India French Indochina Cambodia French protectorate of Laos Cochinchina Annam Tonkin Kouang-Tchéou-Wan New Hebrides

Jewish
affairs

Laws	Law on the status of Jews Law regarding foreign nationals of the Jewish race Second law on the status of Jews
Administration	Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs Order of Physicians^[fr] UGIF
Roundups	French Riviera^[fr] Green ticket Clermont-Ferrand^{[fr; it]} Izieu Marseille Lyon Vel' d'Hiv Villeurbanne^{[fr; it]}
Discrimination and plunder	Aryanisation Nazi plunder Yellow badge Yellow badge in France^[fr]
Camps	Beaune-la-Rolande Drancy Gurs Milles Natzweiler-Struthof (subcamps) Noé Pithiviers Récébédou Rieucros Romainville Royallieu-Compiègne Rivesaltes Septfonds Vernet
Deportation	Deportation convoys^[fr] Deportation timeline Holocaust timeline The Holocaust in France

Military

Forces

Regular	1st Regiment^[fr] 7th Military Division 14th Military Division 15th Military Division Armistice Army Army of the Levant Air Force Navy Guard
Militia	Service d'ordre légionnaire Groupe mobile de réserve Milice Franc-Garde Special Brigades
Auxiliary	SS Charlemagne division Carlingue Légion impériale Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism

Battles

Officers

Dissolution

Aftermath
& Impact

History
& Media

History	The Destruction of the European Jews Strange Defeat
Film	Bombing the Nazis The Eye of Vichy Milice, film noir The Sorrow and the Pity Uranus
Fiction	Castle to Castle Section spéciale Le Silence de la mer Suite française

Occupied France
French Resistance
Year in France
- 1940
- 1941
- 1942
- 1943
- 1944
Category:Vichy France

Categories:

Hidden categories:

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	United States France BnF data Israel
Other	IdRef

History

List of Commissioners-General

Bibliography

See also

References