The Special Sections (''Sections spéciales'') was a

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law writ into statute on 14 August 1941.Weisberg, R.H. (2013) ''Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France'', Volume 3 of Studies in antisemitis
page 376
Routledge Retrieved February 2015

History

They were tribunals set up in

Vichy France Vichy France (; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was a French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, established as a result of the French capitulation after the Battle of France, ...

, one for each

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, charged with judging Communists and anarchists. They were organised by the Vichy authorities during the German reprisals for the assassination on the métro Barbès by Pierre Georges on 21 August 1941. They feature in the 1975 film '' Section spéciale''.

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