Vichy government

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Armistice creates Vichy rule over French North Africa

📅 22 June 1940

The French-German armistice divided metropolitan France and left the Vichy government in control of colonial Algeria and the protectorates of Morocco and Tunisia. Nazi domination thus worked through...

Vichy enacts the first Statut des Juifs

📅 3 October 1940

The Vichy government promulgated a law defining Jews and excluding them from public service and several professions, without being directly ordered by Germany. Vichy officials used state...

Vichy abrogates the Crémieux Decree for Algerian Jews

📅 7 October 1940

Vichy annulled the 1870 Crémieux Decree, stripping most Algerian Jews of French citizenship and returning them to a subordinate legal status. This decision operated within French settler colonial rule...

Vichy authorities announce yellow-star order for Jews in occupied zone

📅 29 May 1942

A German ordinance required Jews aged six and older in the occupied zone to wear a yellow star beginning June 7. It marked Jewish people for public humiliation and facilitated exclusion and...

French police begin Vel d’Hiv roundup

📅 16 July 1942

French police arrested thousands of Jews in Paris and surrounding areas during the two-day roundup of July 16–17. Many families were detained at the Vélodrome d’Hiver before transfer to Drancy and...