1912:
A law orders the systematic documentation of the Roma people. Nomadism is forbidden during wartime, a law permitting the internment of more than 5,000 Romas during the war. A very small minority of Roma people are deported.
The decree of May 2nd 1938, known as the Daladier decree:
Authorizes prefects to assign forced residence to refugees and asylum seekers.
November 12th 1938:
Institution of internment centers.
1939-1940:
Mass internment of nationals from the Reich.
January 21st 1939:
Opening of the Rieucros camp in Lozere, the first internment camps for “undesirable foreigners”.
February 1939:
Opening of the camps of Argeles and Agde to deal with the mass entry of Spanish republicans. April 6th 1940:
Decree forbidding nomadism in France. April 29th 1940*:
Law permitting prefects to assign forced residence to Roma people. May 10th 1940:
Decree by George Mandel orders the internment of German stateless persons.
June 22nd 1940:
Franco-German armistice.
July-August 1940:
Kundt mission
First German order defining the status of the Jews and ordering their census in the occupied zone. A Vichy law allows the internment of all foreigners “in surplus to the French economy” in Groups for foreign workers. ( CTE/GTE°).
October 3rd 1940:
French law on the status of the Jews.
October 4th 1940*:
French law authorizes prefects to intern Jews in specific camps.
9,000 German and Austrian nationals, of whom 50% are Jews, are interned by the French in Gurs camp with their children.
March 20th 1941:
Opening of Drancy camp in the Parisian region.
March 21st 1941:
Creation of the General Commissionership on Jewish Questions (CGQJ), directed by Xavier Vallat who demanded a “state anti-Semitism”.
May 14th 1941:
First mass arrests of foreign Jews. 3,700 men, convened by a “green ticket” for an “examination of situation” are arrested by Parisian police and interned at Pithiviers and at Beaune-la-Rolande in the Loiret department.
June 2nd 1941:
Second law on the status of the Jews.
August 20-25th 1941:
Fresh mass arrests of Jewish foreigners in Paris. 4,232 men are interned in Drancy by the French police on the request of the Germans.
December 12th 1941:
The Germans are assisted by the French police in arresting 743 French Jews in Paris and interning them at Royallieu camp, close to Compiegne. March 27th 1942:
The first convoy of Jews deported “to the East” leaves France. 4,000 Jewish men arrested in May and August 1941 leave for Auschwitz. April 7th 1942:
Six German ruling forbidding Jews to leave their place of residence between 20 p.m and 6 a.m. April 18th 1942:
Pierre Laval returns to power and nominates René Bousquet as general secretary of the police. July 16-18th 1942:
Roundup of Vel' d'Hiv': 12,884 Jews are arrested in Paris.
July 19th 1942:
The first French deportees are gassed at Auschwitz.
August 1942:
The French authorities receive authorization to deport 4,135 children from Drancy. Amongst them, 2,000 are less than 6 years old.
August 26th 1942:
First big roundups of Jews in the non-occupied zone. 10,000 Jews from the free zone are handed over by Vichy to the Gestapo to be “deported to the East”.
January 22-29th 1943:
Marseilles roundup.
February 9th 1943:
Lyons roundup at the UGIF, rue Sainte Catherine.
July 2nd 1943:
Drancy is handed over to German administration.
September 1943:
Roundups in Nice and the surrounding area.
August 17th 1944:
The last convoy leaves Drancy for Auschwitz.
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