EVENT INFORMATION

7
Oktober
1940

Vichy abrogates the Crémieux Decree for Algerian Jews

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📅 7 Oktober 1940 📍 Algerije

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 and differentiated Jews from the Muslim majority, who were already largely denied citizenship under colonial law.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Philippe Pétain

Marcel Peyrouton

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Vichy government

French colonial administration in Algeria