Anti-Jewish restrictions and internment of Jews in Vichy France

In July 1941 the Vichy government passed a series of measures aimed at tightening restrictions aimed at expelling Jews from most professions on French territory. Prefects were also assigned greater powers to intern and marginalize “administratively” Jews residing in their “départements”, thus giving them the latitude to resort to expulsion and internment against them. Finally, the use of aryanization as a method of pseudo-legal expropriation of Jewish-owned businesses significantly increased, forcing Jews to sell off their businesses at below market prices or simply forced to liquidate them in favor of a non-Jewish owner under the aegis of the CGQJ and other Vichy agencies.