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Antisemitic law in Vichy France
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enumerates occupations prohibited to Jews, and defines who is a Jew
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The Law of 3 October 1940 on the status of Jews was a law enacted by Vichy France. It provided a legal definition of the expression Jewish race, which was used during the Nazi occupation for the implementation of Vichy's ideological policy of "National Revolution" comprising corporatist and antisemitic racial policies. It also listed the occupations forbidden to Jews meeting the definition. The law was signed by Marshall Philippe Pétain and the main members of his government.
The Vichy regime was nominally independent, unlike the northern, Occupied zone, which was under direct occupation by Nazi Germany. The Pétain regime didn't wait to be ordered to draw up antisemitic measures by the Nazis, but took them on their own initiative. Antisemitic measures began to be drawn up almost immediately after Pétain signed the Armistice of 22 June 1940, ending hostilities and establishing the terms of France's surrender to the Germans, including the division of France into the occupied and free zones.
Epstein, Mortimer (1942). "The Statesman's Year-Book : Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1942". The Statesman's Year-Book. 79. Palgrave Macmillan. OCLC1086492287. Legal position of Jews in Vichy France.—Almost immediately after the armistice, the Vichy government proclaimed its intention to deprive of their civil rights French people who are of Jewish faith or origin, and to place the Jews in the position of legal inferiority in which they find themselves in all other German-dominated countries. On October 3, 1940 (Journel Officiel of October 18), a law was published fixing the conditions under which a person is considered as being of Jewish origin. Access to all public offices, professions, journalism, executive positions in the film industry, etc. was prohibited to all such persons.
Fresco, Nadine (4 March 2021) . On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History. Translated by Clift, Sarah. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN978-1-78920-882-5. OCLC1226797554. On the preceding page, the law from the day before (3 October 1940), signed by Marshall Philip Pétain and nine of his ministers, is the 'law on the status of the Jews.' We know that those in charge of Vichy, 'complicit even before having understood the inevitable extent of their own compromise', did not wait for it to be imposed by the occupying power before enacting it. We also know that whereas the German ordinance of the preceding month defined Jews by 'religion', the French statute of 3 October defined them by race.
Geddes, Andrew; Favell, Adrian (1999). The Politics of Belonging: Migrants and Minorities in Contemporary Europe (government pub.). Contemporary trends in European social sciences. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN978-1-84014-177-1. OCLC470276345. The laws of October 1940 organized and entrenched discrimination towards Jews and foreigners (law of October 3 1940 concerning the status of Jews; law of October 4 1940 concerning ' alien residents of the Jewish race'.
Joly, Laurent (2008). "L'administration française et le statut du 2 juin 1941" [French administration and the law of 2 June 1941]. Archives Juives. Revue d'histoire des juifs de France. 41 (1). Paris: fr:Les Belles Lettres: 25–40. doi:10.3917/aj.411.0025. ISSN1965-0531. OCLC793455446. Archived from the original on 21 March 2015. This ... was reflected in the drafting of the law of 2 June. In close collaboration and in perfect symbiosis with Admiral Darlan's services and the ministries concerned, the General Commission for Jewish Questions tightened the definition of a Jew (in order to escape the increased strictures of the law, "demi-Jews" had to have belonged to some religion other than Judaism before 25 June 1940) and extended the scope of prohibited occupations. Ce ... se ressent dans la rédaction de la loi du 2 juin. En étroite collaboration et en parfaite symbiose avec les services de l'amiral Darlan et les ministères concernés, le commissariat général aux Questions juives aggrave la définition du Juif (les « demi-juifs » doivent obligatoirement avoir adhéré à une religion autre que la religion juive avant le 25 juin 1940 pour échapper aux rigueurs de la loi) et étend le champ des interdictions professionnelles.
Gros, Dominique (1993). "Le « statut des juifs » et les manuels en usage dans les facultés de droit (1940-44)" [The "status of the Jews" and the textbooks used in law schools (1940-44)]. Cultures et Conflits (in French) (9/10). Paris: L'Harmattan: 139–174. JSTOR23698834..
Joly, Laurent (2010). "Tradition nationale et « emprunts doctrinaux » dans l'antisémitisme de Vichy" [National tradition and "doctrinal borrowings" in the anti-Semitism of Vichy]. In Battini, Michele; Matard-Bonucci (dir.), Marie-Anne (eds.). Antisemitismi a confronto : Francia e Italia. Ideologie, retoriche, politiche (in French). Pisa: Edizioni Plus / Pisa University Press. pp. 139–154. ISBN978-8-88492-675-3..
Laffitte, Michel (2010). "La question des « aménagements » du statut des juifs sous Vichy". In Battini, Michele; Matard-Bonucci (dir.), Marie-Anne (eds.). Antisemitismi a confronto : Francia e Italia. Ideologie, retoriche, politiche [Comparing anti-Semitism : France and Italy. Ideologies, rhetoric, policies] (proceedings) (in Italian). Pisa: Edizioni Plus / Pisa University Press. pp. 179–194. ISBN978-8-88492-675-3. OCLC705739140..
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