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The Jewish Card File Affair of France in the 1990s

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2016, (35), pp.97~134
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Yong-Woo Lee 1

1동덕여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article attempts to examine the “Jewish card file affair”, which included not only the discovery of the “Jewish card file” by a lawyer and historian, Serge Klarsfeld in 1991 but also its aftermath. The card file had resulted from the census of Jews in the Seine district in October 1940 by the Prefecture of the Paris Police. Revelation of the card file brought about a panic, which compelled the French government to establish an ad hoc commission for resolving the ensuing problems, under the direction of an eminent historian, René Rémond. However, the final report of the commission in July 1996 failed to manage the problems and disappointed French public. The affair made public the existence of the huge Jewish card file, an instrument of the Vichy government’s collaboration with Nazi Germany into the holocaust. But contrary to several critics’ view, the affair did not prove the intention of Republican governments to cover the crime of the Vichy regime.

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