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Salle 3 - The Occupation | Creation of “Solidarity”
Jan–Sept 40

3. The Occupation | Creation of « Solidarity »

The July 7, 1940, issue of *L’Humanité clandestine* denounced Pétain and Laval’s “government of scoundrels.”

“Free France” – Overseas Resistance

Pierre Laval

Poster quoting Pétain’s speech of June 20, 1940.

In its July 17 supplement, *Le Petit Parisien* published a list of French prisoners of war interned by the Germans at the Drancy camp.

The “Work, Family, Fatherland” trilogy became the motto of the collaborationist state.

Pétainist poster: the reactionary ideology of the “National Revolution.”

The Vichy regime’s indoctrination of youth: the Chantiers de la Jeunesse.

Collaboration

The Beginnings of the Collaboration: The Meeting Between Pétain and Hitler in Montoire-sur-le-Loir on October 24, 1940.

The law of July 22, 1940, allowed for the revocation of French citizenship from those who had obtained it since 1927.

Example of revocation of citizenship under the law of July 22, 1940.

On July 29, 1940, the SNCF acted in advance of the law of October 3, 1940, concerning the “status of Jews.” Correspondence between SNCF management and the “German Army Transportation Directorate.”

On September 26, 1940, the town hall of Champigny-sur-Marne, at the request of the Germans, began conducting a census of the “Israelites.”

A restaurant closed to Jews under the German ordinance of September 27, 1940.

Secret report on the humiliations inflicted on the Jews of Mulhouse by the Germans beginning in the summer of 1940.

“Appeal of July 10, 1940”: a text by the PCF, titled “Peuple de France,” distributed beginning in late July 1940.

Artur London

By the end of the summer of 1940, groups of young communists had formed within the Jewish section of the M.O.I.: Roger Trugnan recalls his involvement.

Far-right groups

A leaflet dropped by the Royal Air Force (RAF), offering advice to the French on how to avoid having their radios confiscated and announcing the broadcast times for the BBC in London, August 1940.

The underground newspaper *L’Humanité*, Issue No. 75, dated September 10, 1940, denounces anti-Semitism.

First anti-Jewish measures taken by the German military command on Sept. 28, 1940.

This leaflet, distributed by the underground PCF, condemns the policy of collaboration announced by Marshal Pétain.