Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Cantal

This collection contains records from the Prefect’s Office, under headings “Foreigners”, “Jews”, “War Damages” and “Internment and Shelter”. It includes local objections to use of the thermal bath resort of Chaudes-Aigues as an internment site for Jews (under house arrest), correspondence concerning foreign Jewish refugees, Jews’ response to a call to work at Organisation Todt construction sites, and reports on war crimes committed during the war, including those concerning Jews.