{"id":16610,"date":"2024-05-16T09:20:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T07:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/musee\/the-occupation-creation-of-solidarity\/2-from-collaboration-to-state-sponsored-anti-semitism\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:53:46","slug":"2-from-collaboration-to-state-sponsored-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"musee","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/musee\/the-occupation-creation-of-solidarity\/2-from-collaboration-to-state-sponsored-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"2 – From Collaboration to State-Sponsored Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The armistice was signed on June 22, 1940. The country was fragmented. Broadly speaking, a demarcation line<\/a> separated the northern zone, under German Occupation, from the southern zone, known as the \u201cFree Zone.\u201d On July 11, the National Assembly conferred the title of \u201cHead of the French State\u201d on Philippe P\u00e9tain<\/a>. In official texts, the word \u201cRepublic\u201d was abolished. The anti-republican French far right triumphed. <\/p>

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The government settles in the “free” zone in Vichy<\/a>. The National Revolution<\/a> becomes the official ideology of the P\u00e9tainist regime. <\/p>

Pierre Laval<\/a>, appointed vice president of the Council, implemented the policy of state collaboration<\/a> with Hitler’s Germany.<\/p>

The blame for the defeat is placed on \u201cAnti-France\u201d: the Popular Front<\/a>, political opponents, foreigners, Freemasons, and, above all, Jews.<\/p>

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Everyday anti-Semitism began to spread in July, both in Paris and in the southern zone. Far-right groups<\/a> attacked stores owned by Jews. <\/p>

P\u00e9tain enacted anti-Jewish laws in France without any particular pressure from the Germans: the law of July 22, 1940, established a process to review naturalizations granted since 1927. Among those \u201cdenaturalized\u201d were 6,000 Jews. A law of August 16 restricted the practice of medicine to French citizens \u201cby birth.\u201d The same restriction was applied to lawyers the following month. On August 27, the Marchandeau Law, which condemned racist or anti-Semitic articles in the press, was repealed. Anti-Semitic hatred immediately began to appear in the columns of newspapers. <\/p>

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This is the revenge of the anti-Dreyfusards<\/a>. The French state\u2019s exclusionary anti-Semitism is intensifying. The Nazis\u2019 destructive anti-Semitism would come later. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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