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Saint-Paul-d’Eyjeaux (Haute-Vienne Département) is approximately 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Limoges. An internment camp for French and foreign “undesirables” operated at Saint-Paul between November 1940 and June 1944. Altogether nearly 2,000 prisoners were detained at the site, mostly on political grounds. Communists, anarchists, and other political activists, as well as Jews and Freemasons, were among the inmates. According to an order of the departmental prefect of October 30, 1940, the Haute-Vienne Département of Bridges and Roads (Service des Ponts et Chaussées de la Haute-Vienne) built the camp on wetlands on the outskirts of Saint-Paul-d’Eyjeaux. Ultimately it comprised more than 30 wooden barracks that were arranged into six sections. The camp was surrounded by a double row of barbed wire. According to an inspection report from January 15, 1942, the inmates occupied 15 of the 30 barracks in five separate sections. The barracks measured 20 × 7 meters (about 66 × 23 ...
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Title: SAINT-PAUL-D’EYJEAUX
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Saint-Paul-d’Eyjeaux (Haute-Vienne Département) is approximately 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Limoges.
An internment camp for French and foreign “undesirables” operated at Saint-Paul between November 1940 and June 1944.
Altogether nearly 2,000 prisoners were detained at the site, mostly on political grounds.
Communists, anarchists, and other political activists, as well as Jews and Freemasons, were among the inmates.
According to an order of the departmental prefect of October 30, 1940, the Haute-Vienne Département of Bridges and Roads (Service des Ponts et Chaussées de la Haute-Vienne) built the camp on wetlands on the outskirts of Saint-Paul-d’Eyjeaux.
Ultimately it comprised more than 30 wooden barracks that were arranged into six sections.
The camp was surrounded by a double row of barbed wire.
According to an inspection report from January 15, 1942, the inmates occupied 15 of the 30 barracks in five separate sections.
The barracks measured 20 × 7 meters (about 66 × 23 .
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