The Vichy Government Persecution Of The Jews And The Reasons For Analysis

During the Second World War, the Jews in Europe suffered persecutionbrutally, near six million Jews died in the inhuman racial massacre. Internalscholars study mainly the persecution and slaughter to the Jews of German,but follow with little interest in the persecution to the Jews of the Vichyregime. France is the first country that emancipated the Jews in the worldby the form of law, why did Vichy regime persecute the Jews? The textdiscuss how the Vichy regime persecute the Jews, then inquire into thereason of the persecution to the Jews from two sides of historical andactual.When the Vichy regime came into power, the government became theleading of the movement of anti-Semitism. The persecution to the Jews ofthe Vichy regime was divided into two periods. In the beginning, it ismainly eliminating the impact of the Jews in French society from publicscopes. In the end, the persecution aimed at the Jews upgraded. The Vichyregime not only rounded up the Jews on a large scale, also deported theJews to Auschwitz.France had the tradition of anti-Semitism. In the stage of the OldSystem, anti-Semitism which the religion persecution was it's mainly formappeared time after time in France. After the French Revolution, the Jewswere given the equal civil lights, but they cannot cast off the status beingdiscriminated. In the last stage of the Third Republic, the anti-Semitismthat vanished for a long time revived in France, when Dreyfus Affairhappened, anti-Semitism of this time reached climax.It is for the practical factors that the Vichy regime persecuted the Jews.In order to create the illusion that the regime was elected by the people, theVichy regime hoped to achieved the support of the public. The Frenchpublic born the pain of defeat thought it was the Jews that led to the warand the defeat, so they supported the anti-Semitic policy of the governmentat first. For the purpose of obtain more sovereignty from Germany, the Vichy regime carried out anti-Semitic policy actively.In short, during the Second World War, many countries in Europe wereconcerned with the persecution to the Jews, which exposed the false of thewest democracy and humanitarianism. By the analysis to the persecution tothe Jews of the Vichy regime, on one hand it can recurrence the history andrecognize the true face of the Vichy regime, on the other hand it wouldalarm the people and avoid the tragedy re-acted.