Denaturalized: how thousands lost their citizenship and lives in Vichy France

Prologue: 53552X

Introduction

In the beginning was the law

New men? The actors behind the denaturalization policy

The Commission's first selections: political logic and administrative anti-Semitism

Singling out the unworthy at the local level: denaturalizing from the bottom up

The Commission at work

Investigations and investigators

Denaturalized, and then what?

Protests

Summing up

Conclusion.