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Pithiviers (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a commune in the Loiret department, north central France. It is one of the subprefectures of Loiret. It is twinned with Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, England and Burglengenfeld in Bavaria, Germany. Its attractions include a cinema, a theatre and a preserved steam railway.
Pithiviers internment camp was a concentration camp in Vichy France, located 37 kilometres northeast of Orléans, closely associated with Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp in deporting foreign-born and some French-born Jews between 1941 and 1943 during WWII. Originally intended for German POWs, Pithiviers initially housed refugees and later ...
Dec 28, 2018 · At the beginning of World War II, French officials established Pithiviers, a camp situated in the southern region of Loiret, to house an anticipated influx of Nazi prisoners of war. But the...
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- First World War and Later
- Spanish Civil War
- During World War II and The Vichy Regime
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The first internment camps were opened during the First World War (1914–1918) to detain civilian prisoners (mainly German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman). These prisoners were detained in Pontmain in the department of Mayenne, Fort-Barreaux in Isère,: 145–146 in the military camp of Graveson (Bouches-du-Rhône),: 142–143 in Frigolet near Tarascon (Bo...
The most infamous internment camps before World War II were used to intern the Spanish Republican refugees and military personnel during the Spanish Civil War. In 2 weeks in January and February 1939 around 500,000 men, women and children crossed the border. These were interned mostly in camps in the Roussillon Province, such as the Camp de concent...
As early as 1939, the existing camps were indiscriminately filled with German anti-Nazis (Communists, German Jews, etc. Following the 1940 defeat, and the 10 July 1940 vote of full powers installing the Vichy regime, these camps were filled with Jews, first with foreign Jews, then indifferently with foreign and French Jews. The Vichy government wou...
Aincourt, in Seine-et-Oise, was the first internment camp in the Northern Zone. It was opened on 5 October 1940, and quickly filled with members of the French Communist Party(PCF)Les Alliers, near Angoulême, in CharenteRoyal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans (Saline royale d'Arc-et-Senans) in the Doubs, used for GypsiesAvrillé-les-Ponceaux in Indre-et-Loire, camp of the Morellerie for GypsiesThe Nazis also opened Struthofin Alsace (in the part annexed by the Reich). The United States military police also possessed legal authority over the camp in Septèmes-les-Vallons, in the Bouches-du-Rhône.: 53
Although not architecturally conceived as an internment camp, the Vel' d'Hiv (Winter Velodrome) was used during the July 1942 Roundup. Most internment camps, however, were not conceived as such.[page needed] The Vel d'Hiv was also used during the Algerian War (see below). In the colonial empire, Vichy created in Algeria and in Morocco labour camps ...
German prisoners of war
Camps were also used after the liberation to intern German prisoners. In Rennes, after General Patton's United States Third Armyliberated the city on 4 August 1944, about 50,000 German prisoners were kept in four camps in a city of 100,000 inhabitants at the time. In the Camp de Rivesaltes, the German prisoners worked extensively in the reconstruction of Pyrénées-Orientales, between May 1945 and 1946, 412 German prisoners of war died in the camp.[citation needed]
Indochina War
Internment camps were used to receive French from Indochina following the end of the Indochina War in 1954,: 125–126 as well as approximatively 9,000 Hungarian refugees following the Budapest insurrection of 1956 (in Annecy, Colmar—Caserne Valter—, in Gap, in Le Havre, in Metz—Caserne Raffenel, in Montdauphin, in Montluçon—Caserne de Richemond—, in Nancy (camp de Chatelleraud), in Poitiers, in Rennes, in Rouen, in Strasbourg—caserne Stirn—and in Valdahon).: 125–126 Humanitarian concerns large...
Algerian War
Internment was also put to use during the Algerian War (1954–1962), generally under the name of "camps de regroupement" ("regrouping camps"). Within Algeria, the colonial administration used a form of camps as a counter-insurgency tactic, with up to 2 million civilians being internally deported in villages de regroupement: 127 ) to prevent their falling under the influence of the opposing FLN forces. were brought to French metropolitan territory. In France, some camps used under Vichy were op...
The Harkis
Internment camps were also used to intern the Harkis (Algerians who fought on the French Army's side) after the 19 March 1962 Évian Accords which put an official end to the war. Finally, the Camp de Rivesaltes in the Pyrénées-Orientales, and Bourg-Lastic in the Puy de Dôme, used to intern Jews, were also used to intern Harkis in the 1960s, and Kurdish refugees from Iraq in the 1980s.
La SNCF sous l'Occupation allemande. Institut du temps présent, CNRS. 1996.Rajsfus, Maurice (2005). Drancy, un camp de concentration très ordinaire, 1941–1944. Le Cherche-midi éditeur. ISBN 2-86274-435-2.Fontaine, Thomas (2005). Les oubliés de Romainville. Un camp allemand en France (1940–1944). Paris: Taillandier. ISBN 2-84734-217-6.Pithiviers est une commune française située dans le département du Loiret, en région Centre-Val de Loire. Bordée par l'Œuf, elle se situe sur le socle calcaire de l'ancien lac de la région naturelle de la Beauce et présente peu de reliefs.
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Your free month. Common Loiret in the region Centre-Loire Valley, Pithiviers is a city of more than 9000 inhabitants in the heart of Beauce. A forty kilometers of Orleans, the city was once known for its food and pharmaceutical economy. Pithiviers also hosted a notorious prison camp during World War II.
