Die Verantwortlichkeit für die Judenverfolgung in Vichy-Frankreich

The file contains the typewritten historical assessment of five pages on France’s responsibility for the persecution of Jews during the German occupation under the Vichy Regime. The article was written in 1956 by Hermann Graml as a member of the Institute for Contemporary History (Institut für Zeitgeschichte) in Munich. The author discusses the degree of autonomy of France’s Vichy Regime regarding anti-Semitic measures against the Jewish population, the differences between the German racial anti-Semitism and the anti-Semitism of the Vichy Regime, and finally, the relation between Nazi Germany and Vichy. Based on historical sources as well as on recent research literature published in Germany and France, he argues, that the Vichy Regime had a limited scope of action, and used various tactics not to immediately and fully fulfill German demands for anti-Semitic persecution.