Language:
French
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Vingtième Siècle; revue d'histoire
Angaben zur Quelle:
96 (2007) 137-149
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Examines the character and motivation of those who denounced Jews in France during the Nazi occupation. The informers, who mainly reported to the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives, were mostly men, either "cultured", militant antisemites or crude Jew-haters. They were driven by greed, professional envy, or pure hatred, and antisemitism was always in the background. At least 20,000 letters of denouncement were sent to the CGQJ between 1941-44, 25% of them anonymously. Although most of the information was not acted upon, the crimes perpetrated by the Commissariat's Section d'Enquête et de Contrôle were based largely on denouncements, and they included economic despoilment. Views the act of informing as part of a political tradition rooted in the French extreme Right, going back to the 19th century.
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