had to conduct deportations practically on their own during this period and communications between the Judenreferat and Vichy virtually ceased. Germans had therefore to rely on one source of collaboration to carry on the Holocaust in France: the paramilitary Milice.

Approximately 2,500 people were employed by the Commissariat-General between 1941 and 1944. The organization was eventually disbanded on 17 August 1944, followed by the Liberation of Paris