L'aryanisation économique des maisons de prostitution

This article aims at studying the Economic Aryanization and the confiscation of brothels considered as Jewish by French and German Authorities in Occupied France. The confiscation policy implemented under the Vichy regime reached all firms. Dossiers of this prostitution houses show, for the first time, bordellos considered as Jewish and allow a comparison with other houses, but permit also to confront the myths of Jewish prostitution and procuring, still vivid in the 1930's and 1940's. It is striking to notice that the few Jewish brothels exactly fit in the general frame of prostitution in France at the eve of World War II. It is impossible to describe here a Jewish specificity, other than a higher number of foreign born procurers - or their spouses

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