Institut d'étude des questions juives


The Institut d'étude des questions juives was an anti-Semitic propaganda organization created in France under the German occupation during World War II, with the support of the and under the regulation of the Gestapo.
Originally known as the Bureau d'information et d'étude des questions juives it was soon renamed the Institut d'étude des questions juives and officially launched on 11 May 1941. In March 1943, the IEQJ became the Institut d'études des questions juives et ethnoraciales .

Activities

The first Secretary General of the IEQJ was. He remained in the post until 1942, and was succeeded by journalist. The co-founder was Octave Bellet.
The IEQJ was based in Paris at 21 rue La Boétie in a building belonging to art dealer Paul Rosenberg, who was owner of a major art gallery in Paris that had been requisitioned by the Nazis. As a private organization under direct control of the German authority, the IEQJ had no formal link with the Vichy regime. Its main role was the spreading of anti-Semitic propaganda and the publication of the magazine directed by André Chaumet which published 13 issues between November 1941 and February 1943. This was followed by a second magazine entitled Revivre published from March 1943 to July 20, 1944, this time in direct connection with Vichy, and this, too, directed by Chaumet. The IEQJ also published La Question juive en France.
The most important action of the IEQJ was their sponsorship of the exhibition Le Juif et la France which began in September 1941.
Financing of the IEQJ was provided by the German intelligence service of the German Embassy and by Theodor Dannecker, head of the Amt IV J of the Gestapo, responsible for "the Jewish question". Funding was for 200,000 francs the first months, and 50,000 francs thereafter.
The IEQJ was absorbed into the propaganda department of the to be expanded, and replaced in March 1943 by Institut d'études des questions juives et ethnoraciales headed by.