Law on the status of Jews

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Law on the status of Jews
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Long title Law of 3 October 1940 on the status of Jews Loi du 3 octobre 1940 portant statut des Juifs
Territorial extent	Zone libre
Enacted	3 October 1940
Signed by	Marshall Pétain
Signed	3 October 1940
Effective	3 October 1940
Repealed	10 August 1940
Amended by
Second law on the status of Jews
Summary
defines prohibited occupations, and status of Jews based on ancestry
Status: Void ab initio

The Law of 3 October 1940 on the Status of Jews was a law enacted by the Vichy regime, which provided a legal definition of the expression Jewish race, which was used during the Nazi occupation for the implementation of Vichy's ideological policy of "National Revolution" comprising corporatist and antisemitic racial policies. It enumerated the occupations henceforth forbidden to persons meeting the criteria laid down.

The law preceded by one day the Law regarding foreign nationals of the Jewish race" which authorized and organized the internment of foreign Jews and marked the beginning of the policy of collaboration of the Vichy regime to the extermination of the Jews of Europe. These two "laws" were published simultaneously in the Journal officiel two weeks later, on 18 October 1940.

This "law of exception" was enacted in defiance of the positions of the Council of State. The Council of State was still in place since the National Assembly was no longer in power after 11 July 1940 when it granted full powers Philippe Pétain. The law was replaced on 14 June 1941 by the Second law on the status of Jews.

See also

• Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II
• French Fourth Republic
• French Third Republic
• German occupation of France
• History of the Jews in France
• Vichy anti-Jewish legislation
• Vichy France
• Vichy Holocaust collaboration timeline
• Zone libre

References

Notes

Footnotes

Works cited

• Bruttmann, Tal (2008). "La mise en œuvre du statut des Juifs du 3 octobre 1940" [Implementation of the law on Jews of 3 October 1940]. Archives Juives (in French). 41 (1): 11–24. ISSN 0003-9837. Archived from the original on 11 April 2015.

• Klarsfeld, Serge (1983). Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944: Documentation of the Deportation of the Victims of the Final Solution in France. B. Klarsfeld Foundation. OCLC 970847660.

Further reading

• Boiron, Stéphane (2008). "Antisémites sans remords". Cités (36). Paris: Presses universitaires de France: 37–50. doi:10.3917/cite.036.0037..
• Broussolle, Denis (1996). "L'élaboration du statut des Juifs de 1940". Le Genre humain (30–31). Paris: Éditions du Seuil: 115–139. ISBN 978-2-02029-366-2. ISSN 0293-0277..
• Bruttmann, Tal [in French] (2006). Au bureau des affaires juives. L'espace de l'histoire (in French). Paris: La Découverte. ISBN 2-7071-4593-9..
• Bruttmann, Tal [in French] (2008). "La mise en œuvre du statut des Juifs du 3 octobre 1940". Archives Juives. Revue d'histoire des juifs de France (41/1). Paris: Les Belles Lettres: 11–24..
• Cotillon, Jérôme (2009). Raphaël Alibert, juriste engagé et homme d'influence à Vichy v. Histoire (in French). Paris: Economica. ISBN 978-2-7178-5683-5..
• Gros, Dominique (1993). "Le « statut des juifs » et les manuels en usage dans les facultés de droit (1940-44)". Cultures et Conflits (9/10). Paris: L'Harmattan: 139–174. JSTOR 23698834..
• Joly, Laurent [in French]; Michele Battini; Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci (dir.) (2010). "Tradition nationale et « emprunts doctrinaux » dans l'antisémitisme de Vichy". Antisemitismi a confronto : Francia e Italia. Ideologie, retoriche, politiche. Pisa: Edizioni Plus / Pisa University Press. pp. 139–154. ISBN 978-8-88492-675-3..
• Joly, Laurent [in French] (2013). "The Genesis of Vichy's Jewish Statute of October 1940". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 27 (2): 276–298. doi:10.1093/hgs/dct027. ISSN 8756-6583..
• Laffitte, Michel; Michele Battini; Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci (dir.) (2010). "La question des « aménagements » du statut des juifs sous Vichy". Antisemitismi a confronto : Francia e Italia. Ideologie, retoriche, politiche. Pisa: Edizioni Plus / Pisa University Press. pp. 179–194. ISBN 978-8-88492-675-3..