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Post-war Police Investigations in France, or an Attempt at Self-Cleansing of the Paris Police Prefecture during 1944–1946

Jan Grabowski

grabows@uottawa.ca

professor of history at the University of Ottawa, member of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His publications include Judenjagd. Polowanie na Żydów 1942–1945. Studium dziejów pewnego powiatu (2011); 2013 saw the publication of the extended English edition of this book – Hunt for the Jews: Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6916-9379

University of Ottawa

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 9 (2013), pages: 141-156

Publication date: 2013-12-01

https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.584

Abstract

After the liberation of France, French authorities decided to purge the police forces of suspected collaborators and Nazi sympathizers. The Parisian police force (numbering close to 20 000 officers and civilian employees) – by far the largest in the nation, underwent a scrutiny of the specially-created Commission d’Épuration, whose mandate extended to all members of the force active during the 1940–1944 period. All in all close to 4000 officers were vetted by the Commission, and some of them for stood accused of involvement in persecuting the Jews. The officers involved were usually able to deflect the accusations, quoting orders of their superiors and lack of own initiative. Harsh verdicts in these cases were rare, and the suspects were usually treated very leniently.

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Grabowski, J. (2013). Post-war Police Investigations in France, or an Attempt at Self-Cleansing of the Paris Police Prefecture during 1944–1946. Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (9), 141-156. https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.584

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ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
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Data publikacji:
2013-12-01

Dział: Studies