Everything about The Statute On Jews totally explained
The
Statute on Jews was discriminatory legislation against French Jews passed on
October 3,
1940 by the
Vichy Regime, grouping them as a
lower class and depriving them of
citizenship before rounding them up at
Drancy then taking them to be exterminated in
concentration camps. The Vichy Regime voluntarily adopted, without coercion from the German forces, laws that excluded Jews and their children from certain roles in society. According to
Pétain's chief of staff, "Germany wasn't at the origin of the anti-Jewish legislation of Vichy. That legislation was spontaneous and autonomous."
History
On July 22, 1940, the Deputy Secretary of State
Raphaël Alibert created a committee to review 500,000 naturalisations given since 1927. This resulted in 15,000 people having their French nationality revoked, of which 40% were Jews. Alibert was the signatory of the
Statute on Jews.
These laws were copied from Nazi laws or ordinances, so that they were equally harsh for their victims. They were, therefore, more rigorous than the laws set in place by the Italian fascists. These laws of limitation were put into place from the start of the new regime by
Pétain: the first law was put into place barely one month after the Vichy government was established.
The
collaborationist regime also put into practice the Nazi policy on hunting Jews, that was enforced by the French police, sending the captive Jews to
SNCF stations where they'd be sent to French concentration camps as part of the
Final Solution.
Similar legislation was subsequently adopted by
Algeria (October 7, 1940),
Morocco (October 31), and
Tunisia (November 30).
Other groups
Other groups within society, such as
Freemasons and
Communists, were also oppressed by this new regime. Before the
invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, however, the hunt for communists wasn't a high priority on the Nazi agenda.
Laws and statutes
Hitler came to power on 30 January 1933. Pétain came to power on 17 June 1940.
The following table summarizes antisemitic legislative measures in Vichy France vs. Nazi Germany and time it took to adopt the corresponding measures. Time between the installation of government and passing the statute is denoted in parentheses.
| Measure taken |
Vichy France |
Nazi Germany |
| Date |
Time it took |
Date |
Time it took |
| De-naturalization of Jews |
16/07/1940 |
(1 month) |
26/07/1933 |
(6 months) |
| Exclusion of Jews from the army |
03/10/1940 |
(3 months) |
26/06/1936 |
(41 months) |
| Exclusion of Jews from the press |
03/10/1940 |
(3 months) |
04/10/1933 |
(8 months) |
| Exclusion of Jews from commercial and industrial jobs |
03/10/1940 |
(3 months) |
06/06/1938 |
(64 months) |
| Exclusion of Jewish officials |
03/10/1940 |
(3 months) |
07/04/1933 |
(2 months) |
| Authorisation needed to sell or rent a company |
09/03/1941 |
(8 months) |
26/04/1938 |
(63 months) |
| Exclusion of Jewish students |
21/06/1941 |
(12 months) |
22/04/1933 |
(3 months) |
| Exclusion of Jewish lawyers |
16/07/1941 |
(13 months) |
04/04/1933 |
(2 months) |
| Registration of "Jewish" businesses |
22/07/1941 |
(13 months) |
14/06/1938 |
(64 months) |
| Complete exclusion of Jews from commerce and industry |
22/07/1941 |
(13 months) |
12/11/1938 |
(70 months) |
| Nomination of administrators for Jewish heritage |
22/07/1941 |
(14 months) |
03/12/1938 |
(33 months) |
| Exclusion of Jewish doctors |
11/08/1941 |
(14 months) |
13/12/1935 |
(34 months) |
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