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Selected Records from the Departmental Archives of the Charente-Maritime

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2008.100 | RG Number: RG-43.102M

Overview

Description: Contains a variety of documents pertaining to the wartime experience in the Charente-Maritime including, but not limited to, the preservation of law and order, expropriation of Jewish property and businesses, suppression of Freemasonry, operation and placement of anti-aircraft batteries, operations of internment camps at La Palice and Saintes, German propaganda, resistance activities, refugees, civilian evacuations, war crimes, liberation, and the internment of Spanish, Jewish and Roma.
Date: inclusive: 1939-1952
Collection Creator: Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime

Physical Details

Language: French
Extent: digital images : JPEG.
58 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
System of Arrangement: Arrangement is thematic.

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing station. There are no additional access restrictions to this material.
Conditions on Use: No duplication of microfilm reels without the written permission of the Departmental Archives of the Charente-Maritime.

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Freemasonry--France--History. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--France--History--20th century. Police--France--Sources. World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France. World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--France. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish property--France.
Geographic Name: France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. France--Politics and government--1940-1945. Vichy (France)--Politics and government.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from the Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime, via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in October 2008.

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