Selected Records from the Departmental Archives of the Alpes-Maritimes. 1933-1972

Copyright Holder: Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes Contains records directly linked to the war: internments for administrative or “political” reasons; purges; surveillance of political parties; freemasons (“Sociétés Secrètes) and the press; food distribution and rationing; non-Jewish laborers requisitioned to work in Germany (“STO”); military affairs; prisoners; refugees; supervision of real estate transactions; sequestered property; affairs related to German or Italian occupation; war damages; veterans’ affairs; judicial matters and lawsuits; as well as the Armistice Commission. Also contains material indirectly related to the war: public health sector; police prefecture authority over foreigners; departments dealing with hospitals and government employees (“fonctionnaires”); the department of agriculture; public education; and court records. Additional materials accreted in 2019 consist of 02MI 0366/30 (Original call number 3U/2/1157) related to judicial affairs from 1933. The archival regulations changed in France in 2008, the delay before the documents became publicly accessible was reduced to 75 years.