Paris 1940-1944The daily routine
of Parisians
under the Occupation

  • Paris 1940-1944, The Routine under Siege
  • Masters of the Image
  • The German Presence
  • Paris and Collaboration
  • Expositions
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Deliberately "Blurring Daily Life"
  • Paris is hungry, Paris is cold
  • Production
  • Labor Unions in Disarray
  • The War Goes On
  • Multiple Resistances
  • The Resistance Goes Public
  • Cracking Down
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  • The Original Exhibit at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers in Paris
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  • Vichy in Paris
  • Collaborationists’ Paris
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Louis Darquier, aka "Darquier de Pellepoix," 1897-1980


Reproduction of an anonymous photograph © Keystone

Louis Darquier was elected to the city council of Paris in 1935, rapidly attracting attention for his anti-Semitic activism and his admiration for Nazi Germany. In May 1942, he replaced Xavier Vallat as chief of the Commissariat général aux questions juives [CGQJ or General Commission on Jewish Questions]. He attempted to have the Vichy government tighten the persecution of Jews and was subsequently expelled from the CGQJ in February 1944 over a variety of excesses. Condemned to death in absentia in 1947, he continued to live as a refugee in Spain, where he continued to publicly support negationist views as recently as 1978.