Internment camps in France
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Numerous internment camps and concentration camps were located in France before, during and after World War II. Beside the camps created during World War I to intern German, Austrian and Ottoman civil
German soldiers posting notices for refugees and prisoners of war in France, May 1940
Gypsies at the Crest concentration camp, 1916
Refugees at the Argelers concentration camp, 1939
Commemorative stele for survivors of the retirada at Camp de Rivesaltes.
Gurs internment camp
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Gurs internment camp was an internment camp and prisoner of war camp constructed in 1939 in Gurs, a site in southwestern France, not far from Pau. The camp was originally set up by the French governme
Gurs c. 1939
Present-day view of the former main street
Internees in Gurs internment camp, some of them Jews, January 1941
The Camp Gurs memorial, opened in 2007