Camp d'Agde internment camp

Memorial in memory of the camp

The Camp d'Agde internment camp in southern France was, alongside the internment camps Camp de Gurs , Argelès-sur-Mer , Saint-Cyprien , Camp de Rivesaltes , Le Vernet , Septfonds and Bram, for the internment of the remains of the Spanish Republican People's Army Ejército Popular de la República , EPR for short .

After the end of the Spanish Civil War , the internment camp was established in March 1939 on the eastern outskirts of Agde . The 30 hectare internment camp was planned to accommodate 20,000 people. The admission of more than 24,000 refugees from Spain resulted in precarious conditions. From September, after the relocation of the Spanish refugees, the camp was used to recruit young people for the Belgian army . After Belgium and France capitulated , the recruits were interned in the camp until the end of August.

At the end of 1940 the Vichy regime transformed the camp into a collection and internment center for foreigners and Jews. After the deportation of the inmates to the extermination camps in Eastern Europe, the camp was closed and finally destroyed after the withdrawal of the Wehrmacht in 1944.

Web links

• Le camp d'internement d'Agde a fonctionné durant 5 ans. Report of the French television France 3 (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Irène Dauphin: Le camp d'Agde (1939–1943) . In: Jean Sagnes (ed.): Agde, 2600 ans d'histoire . Toulouse 2006, ISBN 2-7089-8186-2 , pp. 118-119 (French).

Coordinates: 43 ° 18 ′ 44 "  N , 3 ° 28 ′ 46"  E