Commissariat-General for Jewish Affairs

was a special administration established in March 1941 by the collaborationist Vichy government of France in order to introduce anti-Jewish legislation.

Theodor Dannecker, Judenreferent in France, called in his memoir for the establishment of a "Jewish central office" on 21 January 1941.

[2] The organization was responsible for proposing all legislative measures concerning Jews to the Vichy government, such as the confiscation of Jewish property in France.

[4] The Commissariat also introduced discriminatory measures against Romani people, likewise targets of Nazi racial policies.

[6] By spring 1944, the Commissariat was dismissed as ineffective by French antisemitic newspapers: the SS had to conduct deportations practically on their own during this period and communications between the Judenreferat and Vichy virtually ceased.