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German sources

– The staff of the Militärbefehlshaber in Frankreich (MBF). The MBF, the German military administration in France, is divided into two main sections: the command staff and the administrative staff.
The archives of the command staff deal with the general collaboration between the occupation authorities and the government of Pétain, the persecution of the Jews, the general policy of reprisals.
In the archives of the administrative service there are documents concerning the occupation authorities' influence on the French economy (interferences, spoliations, especially economic aryanisations).

The German Embassy in Paris was very actively involved in the anti-Jewish measures as evidenced by the numerous telegrams and letters sent several times a day to Berlin by Abetz and Schleier (Minister plenipotentiary of the German Embassy in Paris).

- The Gestapo in occupied France. The largest part of the collection analysed is the archives of the anti-Jewish department of the Gestapo in Paris.
The fund consists of letters, telegrams, reports on internment, deportation and other measures against Jews, such as wearing the yellow star, denaturalization and retaliatory measures in general. There are also documents concerning the pressure on Italian policy in the Italian occupation zone.
This collection was supplemented by documents on the Gestapo in France, held in the German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv Koblenz). It gives us a true picture of the structures and activity of the Gestapo in France, and more particularly of the anti-Jewish service led by Dannecker, then by Rothke.

Archives of the Nuremberg trials

This is part of the entire documentation collected for the international military trial, as well as trials conducted by the US military tribunal.

A specific classification system governs this large mass of archives. The main subdivisions of this classification are as follows:

• NO (Nazi Organization) Under this reference are grouped documents from all Nazi organizations, in particular on the role of the S.S. and the WVHA (central office of the economy and administration S.S.)
• NOKW (Nazi » Oberkommando der Wehrmacht «) This group of documents refers to the activity of the German army.
• NG (Nazi Government) Documents illustrating the activities of state organizations linked to those of the organs of the Party.
• NI (Nazi Industry) Documents relating to the industry and financial institutions of the Third Reich.

French sources

– Archives of the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives. The CJC has over 20,000 documents from the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (C.G.Q.J.), as well as proceedings of its leaders' trials.
– Professor Montandon’s archives. Montandon was an ethnologist and » expert in racial issues » at the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives. This fragmentary collection covers the period from 1924 to 1944, covering first his scientific work as an ethnologist and then his anti-Jewish propaganda activities from 1938 onwards.
– Institut d'Etude des Questions Juives. The C.D.J.C. retains most of the papers of this organization created in 1941 at the instigation of Dannecker. The fund contains correspondence from the Secretary-General and describes all the activities of the Institute.

Other funds. The archives of the C.D.J.C. contain many other documents from the Armistice Services Directorate, the Police Prefecture, but also from Jewish organizations such as:
the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (O.S.E.), the Éclaireurs Israélites de France (E.I.F.) the Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France (F.S.J.F.),the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (C.R.I.F.),the Œuvre de Protection de l'Enfance Juive (O.P.E.J.), the Central Commission for Children (C.C.E.) ...