{"id":16807,"date":"2024-06-17T10:20:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/louis-darquier-de-pellepoix\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:20:29","slug":"louis-darquier-de-pellepoix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/louis-darquier-de-pellepoix\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Darquier de Pellepoix"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"16807\" class=\"elementor elementor-16807 elementor-3843\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-97bceee e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"97bceee\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ef3d875 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ef3d875\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>(1897-1980)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c26dad5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c26dad5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Louis Darquier de Pellepoix was a French politician born in 1897 in Cahors.<\/p><p>After a aimless and troubled youth, he joined the \u201cCroix-de-Feu,\u201d a far-right organization, and in the 1930s, he became a member of \u201cAction fran\u00e7aise,\u201d a nationalist and royalist political movement.<\/p><p>When L\u00e9on Blum came to power, he distinguished himself through his virulent anti-Semitism.<\/p><p>In early 1937, he founded the \u201cRassemblement antijuif de France\u201d and launched the newspaper <em>*L\u2019Antijuif*.<\/em><\/p><p>During a rally that year, he declared: \u201cWe must urgently resolve the Jewish problem, either through expulsion or through massacre.\u201d<\/p><p>An early supporter of Nazi Germany, he actively collaborated with the occupying forces, advocated for stripping Jews of their French citizenship, and was appointed in 1942 by Pierre Laval, a rabid anti-Semite, to head the General Commissariat for Jewish Affairs (CGQJ), replacing Xavier Vallat, who was considered too moderate.<\/p><p>Darquier was directly involved in numerous criminal anti-Jewish measures, including the \u201cV\u00e9l&#8217; d&#8217;Hiv&#8217; roundup.\u201d<\/p><p>In December 1947, he was sentenced in absentia to death, stripped of his civil rights, and had his property confiscated.<\/p><p>In 1978, from his home in Spain, he cynically denied the reality of the Shoah: \u201cI\u2019ll tell you exactly what happened. People were gassed at Auschwitz. Yes, that\u2019s true. But they were gassed to kill lice\u201d (statement to the French newspaper <em>*L\u2019Express*<\/em>).<\/p><p>He died undisturbed in 1980 in Franco\u2019s Spain, where he had found refuge, like many other Nazi collaborators.<\/p><p> <\/p><hr><p>Reference:<\/p><p>Joly, Laurent, <em>*Louis Darquier de Pellepoix and French Anti-Semitism*, Berg <\/em>International, 2002<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1897-1980) Louis Darquier de Pellepoix was a French politician born in 1897 in Cahors. After a aimless and troubled youth, he joined the \u201cCroix-de-Feu,\u201d a far-right organization, and in the 1930s, he became a member of \u201cAction fran\u00e7aise,\u201d a nationalist and royalist political movement. 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