Appointment of Louis Darquier de Pellepoix as commissaire-général of CGQJ (Q8545)
On 6 May 1942 Pierre Laval appointed Louis Darquier de Pellepoix a former Paris city council member and Action Française activist, to serve as "commissaire-général" of the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ), succeeding Xavier Vallat in
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Appointment of Louis Darquier de Pellepoix as commissaire-général of CGQJ
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On 6 May 1942 Pierre Laval appointed Louis Darquier de Pellepoix a former Paris city council member and Action Française activist, to serve as "commissaire-général" of the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ), succeeding Xavier Vallat in
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Appointment of Louis Darquier de Pellepoix as commissaire-général of CGQJ
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May 1942
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May 1942
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On 6 May 1942 Pierre Laval appointed Louis Darquier de Pellepoix a former Paris city council member and Action Française activist, to serve as commissaire-général of the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ), succeeding Xavier Vallat in that position. A fervent anti-Semite, he acted on his beliefs with militant zeal. He collaborated closely with Nazi agencies and implemented aggressiv
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