Practicing Prejudice in French Law and Medicine, 1920–1945
by
Julie Fette
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the 1930s, the French Third Republic banned naturalized citizens from careers in law and medicine for up to ten years after they had obtained French nationality. In 1940, the Vichy regime permanently expelled all lawyers and doctors born of foreign fathers and imposed a 2 percent quota on Jews...