Vichy Holocaust collaboration timeline

Led first by Philippe Pétain, the Vichy regime that replaced the French Third Republic in 1940 chose the path of collaboration with the Nazi occupiers. This policy included the Bousquet- Oberg accords of July 1942 that formalized the collaboration of the French police with the German police. This collaboration was manifested in particular by anti-Semitic measures taken by the Vichy government, and by its active participation in the genocide.

The terms ''Zone libre'' (Free Zone), Vichy France, Vichy regime, southern zone, French State, and ''État français'' are all synonyms and refer to the state in the south of France governed from Vichy during World War II and headed by French World War I hero Marshal Philippe Pétain. The terms ''Zone occupée'' (Occupied Zone), Occupied France, and northern zone refer to the northern portion of France governed by the German military administration in Paris, taking orders from Berlin.

1940

* July 10, 1940: Pierre Laval induces Parliament to vote complete powers (constituent, legislative, executive and judicial) to Marshal Philippe Pétain who becomes Head of state of the French State (État français).
* July 21, 1940: Minister of Justice Alibert creates a board to review 500,000 naturalizations accorded since 1927. Withdrawal of nationality for 15,000 people, 40% of whom were Jews.
* July 1940: Germans expel more than 20,000 Alsace-Lorraine Jews to the southern zone.
* September 27, 1940: Ordinance on the status of Jews in the Occupied Zone. A census of Jews ("the Tulard file") and obligatory sign "Juif" meaning "Jew" on shops owned by Jews.
* September 27, 1940: A Vichy law allows any foreigner "redundant to the French economy" to be interned among "groups of foreign workers".
* October 3, 1940: first law on the status of Jews. French Jewish citizens are excluded from civil service, army, education, the press, radio and film. "Surplus" Jews are excluded from the professions. Article 9: This law is applicable to Algeria, to the colonies, protectorates and mandated territories.
* October 4, 1940: prefects can detain foreigners of Jewish extraction in special camps or to assign residence.
* October 7, 1940: repeal of the 1871 Crémieux Decree; French nationality is removed from Jews from Algeria.
* October 7, 1940: Aryanization of businesses in the Occupied Zone.

1941

* March 29, 1941: creation of the Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs (CGQJ), with Xavier Vallat as the first commissioner.
* May 11, 1941: Creation of the '' Institut d'étude des questions juives'', an anti-Semitic propaganda agency, financed by the nazis (Theodor Dannecker) and directed by French antisemitic agitators Paul Sézille, René Gérard and others.
* May 14, 1941: the green ticket roundup () organized by the Prefecture of Police with the agreement of the general delegation of the French government in the occupied zone and upon demand by the occupying authorities: 3,747 Jewish foreigners, (out of 6,494 summoned by the prefecture) were crammed into the Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande internment camps under French administration.
*June 2, 1941: Second law on the status of Jews Law of 2 June 194, the second law concerning Jews. Compared to the first one, an increasingly stringent definition of who is a Jew, additional professional work restrictions, quotas in University (3%) and the liberal professions (2%). Jews were obligated to take part in a census in the ''Zone libre''. Article 11 of the Statute: "This law is applicable to Algeria, the colonies, protectorates and territories under mandate. This law authorizes prefects to perform administrative detention of Jews of French nationality.".
* July 21, 1941: Aryanization of Jewish companies in the ''Zone libre''.
* August 1941: Occupied zone: internment of 3,200 foreign and 1,000 French Jews in various camps including Drancy.
* November 29, 1941: creation of the UGIF ('' Union générale des israélites de France''), facilitating the tracking and classification of Jews in France. Created by decree under pressure by Nazi Germany.
* December 1941: Occupied zone: 740 French Jews, members of the liberal and intellectual professions, interned in Compiègne.

1942

* January 1942: Wannsee Conference: Nazi officials define the practical arrangements for the "Final Solution", that is to say, the complete extermination of European Jewry, including children.
* 27 March 1942: The first convoy of Jewish deportees leaves Compiègne (Frontstalag 122) towards an extermination camp.
* May 20, 1942: Occupied zone: Compulsory wearing of yellow Jewish star badge. (effective June 7).
* July 2, 1942: Oberg- Bousquet agreement for collaboration between French and German police, in the presence of Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's deputy.
* July 16–17, 1942: Roundup of the Vel d'Hiv: arrest of 13,152 "stateless" Jews (3,031 men, 5,802 women and 4,051 children).
* July 19, 1942: failed , after Jews were warned overnight to flee by Nancy Police Commissioner for Foreign Affairs Édouard Vigneron.
* 26–28 August 1942 ''Zone libre'': series of roundups resulting in the deportation of 7,000 people.

1943

* January 1943: Roundup of Marseille: destruction of the Old Port and roundups by French authorities. Nearly 2,000 Marseilles Jews arrested and deported. ''Le Petit Marseillais'' of January 30, 1943 wrote: "Note that the evacuation operations in the Northern district of the Old Port were carried out exclusively by French police and that no incidents were reported.Maurice Rajsfus, ''La Police de Vichy. '' The Opera district, where many Sephardic families lived, is emptied of its inhabitants.
* February 1943: Lyon raid on the premises of the Union générale des israélites de France (UGIF, General Union of French Jews).
* September 8, 1943: surrender of Italy leading to the Allied occupation of Italian-occupied France hitherto spared the roundups.
* April 1943: Nîmes and Avignon roundups.
* September 1943: roundups of Nice and surrounding area.

1944

* February 1944: roundups of Grenoble and Isère

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