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VERDICT ON VICHY VERDICT ON VICHY POWER AND PREJUDICE IN THE VICHY FRANCE REGIME MICHAEL CURTIS Arcade Publishing NEW YORK Copyright © 2002, 2014 by Michael Curtis All rights reserved. No pan of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the publisher, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles. All inquiries should be addressed to Arcade Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018. Arcade Publishing books may be purchased in bulk at special discounts for sales promotion, corporate gifts, fund-raising, or educational purposes. Special editions can also be created to specifications. For details, contact the Special Sales Department, Arcade Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018 or [email protected]. Arcade Publishing* is a registered trademark of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.*, a Delaware corporation. Visit our website at www.arcadepub.com. 10 987654321 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file. Cover image © Corbis Print ISBN: 978-1-62872-436-3 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-62872-481-3 Printed in the United States of America To Judy Count Pozzo di Borgo, a diplomat from Corsica, imagined the triumphant entrance of the famous French statesman Talleyrand into Hell, where he was greeted with great pomp and circum stance. Satan complimented him on all he had done but added: 'Prince, your zeal has slightly exceeded my expectations 'Oui, le Vél d'Hiv, Drancy, Compiègne et tous les camps de transit, ces antichambres de la mort, ont été organisés, gérés, gardés par des Français. Oui, le premier acte de la Shoah s'est joué ici, avec la compliçité de l'Etat français.' 'Yes, the Vél d'Hiv, Drancy, Compiègne, and all the transit camps, these antechambers of death, were organised, administered, and guarded by French people. Yes, the first act of the Shoah [the Holocaust] was played out here with the complicity of the French Sute [the Vichy regime].' French Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, 21 July 2002, at the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Vél d'Hiv round-up of Jews on 16 July 1942 CONTENTS List of Illustrations xi Preface xiii List of Abbreviations xxi Maps xxii-xxiii Introduction I I The Jews of France i8 2 Anti-Semitism in France 34 Vichy: the French State 3 63 4 The new anti-Semitic legal system 105 From definition to detention 5 h i 6 The Aryanisation process 123 7 Detention by Vichy 156 8 Persecution 171 9 Response to persecution 201 IO Between the devil and the deep blue sea 226 il The judgements of Paris 270 12 Servants of the state and the law 301 The Churches and anti-Semitism 322 13 Conclusion 344 Fate of some of the collaborators 355 Select Bibliography 357 Notes 368 Index 398
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