Police Intelligence Service (Sub-series GB from series G). Special Brigades under German Occupation
Extent and Medium
194,222 digital images, JPEG
Creator(s)
- Jean-Marc Gentil
- Direction Centrale des Renseignements Généraux
Archival History
Archives de la Préfecture de Police de Paris
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Archives de la Préfecture de Police, France. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in June 2017. These documents were found in the cellar of the former archives in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.
Scope and Content
Records of Les Brigades Spéciales (BS) [Special Brigades] of the Préfecture de Police, which were a part of the Direction Centrale des Renseignements Généraux (now called the Department of Intelligence of the Prefecture of Police) and was created specifically to track down enemies of the Vichy government. Records are divided into two parts: a group BS1 to follow Communist and Gaullist propaganda and activities (M.O.I. Francs Tireurs Partisans, etc.), and a group BS2 was created in 1942, to track-down “terrorist” groups and individuals who were planning attacks against the German occupying forces and against collaborationist groups like the Milice (French Militia)
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Archives de la Préfecture de Police de Paris
Corporate Bodies
- France. Snipers and Partisans (FTPF)
Subjects
- France
- Communism--France--20th century.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Registers.
- Militia
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France.
- Vichy (France)--Politics and government.
- France--Politics and government--1940-1945.
- Communist parties.
Genre
- Document