List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps administered by France
Appearance
By the end and in the aftermath of World War II, POW camps administered by France existed in the territory of France and the zones of French occupation in Germany and in Austria.[1]
Researcher Tarczai Béla gives the following list of POW camp locations.[1][2]
Austria
[edit]The French established prisoner of war camps in the French occupation zone of Austria, namely Vorarlberg and the Tyrol.[3]
Germany
[edit]France
[edit]- Agde
- Amboise
- Attichy
- Aubagne
- Auberchicourt, Nord
- Avignon
- Bar-sur-Aube
- Beaune-la-Rolande
- Besançon
- Béthune
- Breisac
- Brévannes
- Brienne-le-Château
- Brumath
- Caen
- Cahors
- Camp de Livron, Caylus, Tarn-et-Garonne[8]
- Camp de Thoré
- Camp des Anamites
- Camp des Defends par Châteauroux
- Camp des Sables-Fortet
- Castres
- Châlons-sur-Marne
- Champenoise-Vigole
- Châteauroux
- Cherbourg
- Clermont-Ferrand
- Colmar
- Colombes
- Comper-en-Concoret
- Cormeilles-en-Parisis
- Cotentin
- Damigny
- Decise
- Dieppe
- Dijon
- Draguignan
- Épinal
- Ergm
- Espagot
- Évron
- Farges, Morbihan
- Ferrières-la-Verrerie
- Foix
- Fort de Cormeilles-en-Parisis
- Fort de Noisy-le-Sec, Romainville
- Fort Moselle
- Foucarville
- Fontainebleau
- Freisine
- Givers
- Grabyle
- Graffenstaden
- Grandville
- Haguenau
- Hatten
- Hénin-Liétard
- Hérault de Béziers
- La Bégude
- La Flèche
- La Trémouille pres Tulle
- Lamballe
- Le Havre
- Lens/Mericourt
- Liévin/Calonne
- Lille
- Lisle-sur-Tarn
- Lunéville
- Lyon
- Marckolsheim
- Marseville
- Märzwiller
- Méricourt
- Metz
- Mitrachin
- Montech
- Montélier
- Montier-en-Der
- Montoir-de-Bretagne, Brittany
- Mulhouse-St. Louis
- Mutzig
- N. Orléans
- Nice
- Nouvelle Annecy
- Parche
- Perpignan
- Préchac-sur-Adour
- Piemont
- Poitiers
- Quiéry-la-Motte
- Rennes
- Riquewihr
- Rittershoffen
- Rivesaltes
- Rouen
- Saint-Fons
- Saint-Jean-d'Angély
- Saint-Priest, Isère
- Satonay, Sausheim
- Sedan
- Sepmes
- Sermaize-les-Bains
- Sète /Montpellier, Hérault
- Strasbourg
- Toulouse
- Tours
- Vénissieux, Lyon
- Vernel
- Le Vernet, Ariège
- Versailles
- Ville de Pau
- Villemaur-sur-Vanne
- Vitry-le-François
- Voves
- Vuilnemin, Douai
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Bela Tarczai, Hungarian Prisoners of War in French Captivity 1945-47
- ^ Bela Tarczai, Magyarok a Nyugati Hadifogoly Taborokban. (Hungarians in Western Prisoner-of-War Camps), Budapest, 1992
- ^ Eisterer, Klaus (2001). "Les prisonniers de guerre autrichiens sous contrôle française (1943-1947/1948)". Guerres Mondiales et Conflits Contemporains (in French). 201 (201): 83–104. doi:10.3917/gmcc.201.0083. ISBN 978-2-13-051946-1.
- ^ The only place that could be meant.
- ^ There was no place called Gscheid, Gschaid, Gschaidl or Gschaidt in the French occupation zone in Austria.
- ^ The only place that could be meant, but it lies in Upper Austria.
- ^ The only place that could be meant (former site of German Oflag VII-A Murnau).
- ^ "Les camps d'internement français entre 1939 et 1945 : Camp de LIVRON". apra.asso.fr. 2010. Retrieved 11 April 2012.