The Nazi Propaganda Office oversaw the creation of the Institute for the Study of Jewish Questions (IEQJ) on May 11, 1941. The organization was housed in Paris in a building confiscated by the Nazis, which had previously belonged to the art dealer Paul Rosenberg. Theodor Dannecker, one of the heads of the Nazi political police (the Gestapo) and head of the Department for Jewish Affairs, provided some of the Institute’s funding.
Some French people, supporters of the collaborationist Vichy government, work there…
The IEQJ disseminates virulent anti-Jewish propaganda, notably through several publications, including *Le Cahier jaune*, *Revivre “Le grand magazine illustré de la race”*, and *La Question juive en France et dans le monde*.
In addition, the IEQJ organized an extremely violent anti-Semitic exhibition, “The Jew and France,” which opened in Paris in September 1941. The purpose of the exhibition, which ended in June 1942, was to caricature Jews and blame them for France’s past and present misfortunes.
At the end of 1942, the IEQJ, established by the Nazis, came under Vichy administration and was attached to the General Commissariat for Jewish Affairs; in March 1943, it became the Institute for the Study of Jewish and Ethno-Racial Issues (IEQJR), headed by Georges Montandon, a theorist of antisemitism and a propagandist of racial hatred.
Reference:
Billig, Joseph, 1974, *The Institute for the Study of Jewish Questions: The French Office of the Nazi Authorities in France: An Annotated Inventory of the Collection of Documents from the Institute’s Archives Held at the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation*, Paris: C.D.J.C.
