Founded:

1939

Dissolved:

1946

Internment camp set up from March/April 1939, initially for political refugees from Spain and fighters of the International Brigades returning from the Spanish Civil War, from May 1940 also for ‘undesirables’, from October 1940 camp for German Jews deported from Baden, Bavarian Palatinate and Saar Palatinate, operated by the Vichy government on behalf of the Nazi regime, closed in November 1943, reopened in 1944 for ‘opponents of the regime’, from September 1944 for collaborators and German prisoners of war, closed and dismantled in 1946, national memorial site since 1994

Mentioned in

• A Home of Human Rights? The German-speaking Jewish Diaspora in France (1930s–1940s) (Patrick Farges)