Financial Commissions Selected Records from the French National Archives: F37 Commissions financières

The collection includes selections from Fond F37, Commissions financières documenting the General Delegation for Franco-German Economic Relations (DGRE, Délégation générale aux relations économiques franco-allemandes). Records document the Office of the Jewish Affairs Commissioner, the extent of the territorial jurisdiction of the provisional administrators, German seizure of sequestered Jewish property, removal of furniture belonging to Jews, fines imposed on Jews, the “aryanization” of publishing houses, blankets and shoes issued to deported Jews, and the legal situation of the assets of the Rothschild family. Individual cases include Affaire SIGMA, Société anonyme franchise de gérance, Journal l'Information, Affair “Galeries Lafayette,” Société Cotonnière du Nord et de l’Est, Affair Oxcom, Société des Moteurs et automobiles Lorraine (SMAL), Société Penarroya, Compagnie France-Navigation, Affaire Rosengart, Affaire Braunstein (papier à cigarettes Zig-Zag), Affaire Lip (Besançon), Comptoir du Cuir, Affaire David-Weil, Affaire du “Petit-Parisien,” Affaire Guckenheim, Société Levy-Finger, Affaire Salmet, Librairie Nathan et Cie, Société Commerciale de l’Est, Compagnie d'Énergie radioélectrique du Poste Parisien, and Société Parisienne d’Habillement. Copyright Holder: Archives nationales (France) The General Delegation for Franco-German Economic Relations (DGRE) was established at the State Secretariat for National Economy and Finance by a law of 23 February 23, 1941 organizing the latter. Its existence was short-lived as the DGRE was abolished on December 9, 1942 and its attributions definitively transferred to the Secretary of State. The delegation was situated in Paris and presided over and coordinated Franco-German economic relations in order to avoid any divergence in the conduct of negotiations in the face of German demands in the field of imports and exports, war material, labor or supplies. These attributions were similar to those of the French Armistice Delegation for Economic Affairs (whose archives are kept in the AJ/41 series), which led to the abandonment of the DGRE after only twenty months of existence. The documents presented here are those of Jacques Barnaud, first and only general delegate, from February 23, 1941 to January 6, 1943.