Attichy
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| region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Oise | |
| Arrondissement | Compiègne | |
| Canton | Compiègne-1 | |
| Community association | Lisieres de l'Oise | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 25 ' N , 3 ° 3' E | |
| height | 36-140 m | |
| surface | 14.74 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,880 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 128 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 60350 | |
| INSEE code | 60025 | |
Attichy is a French commune with 1,880 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Oise in the region of Hauts-de-France . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Compiègne and the canton of Compiègne-1 . The place is in the valley of the Aisne .
Population development
- 1962: 1.317
- 1968: 1,391
- 1975: 1,545
- 1982: 1.616
- 1990: 1,651
- 1999: 1,852
- 2013: 1,865
Partner communities
- Einhausen in Hessen
POW camp
From 1945 to 1946 there was the American prisoner-of-war camp CCPWE # 15 in Attichy, where German soldiers and officers were interned. The adult prisoners were housed in the most makeshift conditions and, according to reports that returned home, received insufficient care. In addition to the camp, which was divided into 19 quarters (" cages ") and temporarily enclosed over 50,000 prisoners, a further four baby cages were used from shortly before the end of the war until September 1945 as a camp for around 10,000 young prisoners of war who were serving in the "final battle" had been fetched. The American camp commandant Colonel Alfred C. Johnson had the largest "high school in the world" here in the early summer of 1945 for the Christian-Democratic re-education of 18,000 young prisoners of war. In addition to the elementary subjects, religion was the main subject on the curriculum. The young people were one here reeducation program, which should serve the education about the Nazi crimes and the education for democracy and human rights, subjected. For this purpose, boys under 18 years of age from all American prisoner-of-war camps in France were brought together. Up to 150 prisoners of war German pastors and teachers looked after 60 young people there in the same number of classes. Heinrich Böll was among them .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Willi Dittgen : Attichy's children's cage. An experience report. Rheinberg, M. Schiffer 1957, 48 pages.
- ^ Heinrich Böll: Letters from the War , Cologne 2001
Web links
- Attichy on the Insee website
- Multi-page photo report on the "baby cage" in the issue of LIFE magazine from October 8, 1945 (volume 19, no. 15), here digital