Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Le Monde Juif
Angaben zur Quelle:
141 (1991) 9-20
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews Legal status, laws, etc.
Abstract:
Analyzes the two statutes on Jews promulgated by the Vichy regime which explicitly revealed the official political and ideological tendencies toward discrimination and numerus clausus. The first statute represented a French policy initiative, expressing state antisemitism. In the second statute (of June 1941), religion had become the focal point of the definition of Jew and was a more rigorous extension of the principle of exclusion that was central to the Vichy system. The statistics on licensed Jewish civil servants confirm that in 1940 there were already few Jews in public office. Concludes that the Jews became pariahs in a society into which they had struggled for decades to assimilate. The study of the behavior of the French administration reveals the bureaucratic logic that facilitated the mechanism of persecution.
Note:
An English and a Hebrew version appeared in "Yad Vashem Studies" 22, 1992.
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