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| Location | : | Gurs, Departement des Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France |
| Coordinate | : | 43.2647220, -0.7316670 |
| Description | : | In April, 1939, the Gurs Concentration Camp was established by the French. It initially served as a detention camp for political refugees fleeing Spain after the Spanish Civil War. In early 1940, the French government interned about 4,000 German Jewish refugees as "enemy aliens," along with French leftists who opposed the Allies. After the French armistice with Germany in June 1940, Gurs fell under the authority of the leftist collaborationist French government - the antisemitic Vichy regime. Conditions in the Gurs camp were very primitive. It was overcrowded and there was a constant shortage of water, food, and clothing. During 1940-1941, 800... Read More |
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Latitude: 43.2647220
Longitude: -0.7316670
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