Police collaboration in Vichy France
Police collaboration in Vichy France was part of the Vichy government's external political objectives and emerged as an essential tool of collaboration in meeting its policy of collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II.[1]
Propaganda poster for the recruitment of the National Police as part of the Vichy regime's National Revolution, late 1941 - early 1942
Oath of state
On 14 August 1941, a decree signed by Philippe Pétain required all civil servants to take an oath of loyalty to him. An official ceremony took place for the police on 20 January 1942, during which 3,000 delegates from the Paris Guard, the National Police and the Police Prefecture met in the great hall of the Palais de Chaillot, under the presidency of Pierre Pucheu, Minister of the Interior.[2][3] After the Peacekeepers' Band played La Marseillaise, the oath was taken in these terms: "I swear loyalty to the Head of State in everything he commands in the interest of the service, public order and the good of the country". To which all the police officers present responded by raising their arms and saying: "I swear it".[4]
See also
- Carlingue
- Collaboration with the Axis powers
- Government of Vichy France
- Green ticket roundup
- Groupe mobile de réserve
- Law on the status of Jews
- Joseph Darnand
- Milice
- René Bousquet
- Special Brigades
- Vel' d'Hiv Roundup
- Vichy anti-Jewish legislation
- Vichy Holocaust collaboration timeline
- Wartime collaboration
References
Citations
- Kitson 2002, p. 375.
- Rossignol 1991, pp. VIII-351.
- Beaupré 2012, p. 1143.
- Quotation by Maurice Rajsfus Opération Étoile Jaune, Le Cherche midi, Archives of the Paris police headquarters, 2002, BA 1784 series
Bibliography
- Beaupré, Nicolas, ... (2012). Les grandes guerres : 1914-1945. Paris: Belin. ISBN 978-2-7011-3387-4.
- Emsley, Clive; Johnson, Eric; Spierenburg, Pieter (2004). Social Control in Europe. The Ohio State University Press.
- Golsan, Richard Joseph, ed. (1996). Memory, the Holocaust, and French justice : the Bousquet and Touvier affairs. Hanover: Dartmouth College. ISBN 9780874517330. OCLC 32922667.
- Kates, Stephanie (30 October 2017). "Vichy France's Collaboration with Nazi Germany". The Arbutus Review. 8 (1): 37–44. doi:10.18357/tar81201716806.
- Kitson, Simon (2002). "From Enthusiasm to Disenchantment: The French Police and the Vichy Regime, 1940-1944". Contemporary European History. 11 (3): 371–390. ISSN 0960-7773.
- Rossignol, Dominique (1991). Histoire de la propagande en France de 1940 à 1944 : l'utopie Pétain (1re éd ed.). Paris: Presses universitaires de France. ISBN 2-13-043474-6.