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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1987 2(1):21-47; doi:10.1093/hgs/2.1.21
© 1987 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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COMMANDANT OF DRANCY: ALOIS BRUNNER AND THE JEWS OF FRANCE

MARY FELSTINER *

San Francisco State University

SS Captain Alois Brunner (1912- ) engineered the deportation programmes of Austria, Greece, France and Slovakia. In 1943–4 Brunner served as commandant of Drancy, France's main deportation camp. His importance in the deportation of France's Jews has not been fully assessed, nor his safety in Syria seriously assailed. The changes Brunner made in Drancy (removing French control, coercing Jewish service, terrorizing and deceiving inmates) and in the deportation programme (cancelling exemptions, commanding new operations, pursuing Jews of French nationality and targeting children) all accelerated the Final Solution in France. His efforts resulted in the deportation of 24,000 people from Drancy to death camps.

*The author would like to thank Vidar Jacobsen of the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris. Fruma Mohrer and Marek Web of the YIVO Institute Archives in New York, Denise Gluck of the Joint Distribution Committee Archives in New York, and above all John Felstiner of Stanford University. Translations of documents are the author's own.


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