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Lieu d'internement

From February 1940 to January 1941, some two hundred people from south-eastern France were held at the Chabanet camp, one of the camps intended to detain individuals considered "security risks" for a France at war with Germany and that in fact were used almost exclusively to detain communists. The "Chabanet concentration camp", the official term of the Daladier government to refer to centers for the imprisonment of French Communist Party activists and sympathizers was at first administered by the army, and became a "Monitored Residency Center" under Vichy, when administration passed over to the Ministry of the Interior as of November 1, 1940. Most of the... Read more

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Address : Domaine de Chabanet , 07000 Privas
GPS Coordinates : 44.706278 , 4.585252
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From February 1940 to January 1941, some two hundred people from south-eastern France were held at the Chabanet camp, one of the camps intended to detain individuals considered "security risks" for a France at war with Germany and that in fact were used almost exclusively to detain communists. The "Chabanet concentration camp", the official term of the Daladier government to refer to centers for the imprisonment of French Communist Party activists and sympathizers was at first administered by the army, and became a "Monitored Residency Center" under Vichy, when administration passed over to the Ministry of the Interior as of November 1, 1940. Most of the prisoners were from Gard, Vaucluse, Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Var, and Basses-Alpes. In light of the increasingly greater difficulties in supplying the internment camps, the Vichy government brought the prisoners together and shut down many smaller camps. The prisoners from Chabanet were taken by train to the camp at Nexon in Haute-Vienne on January 13, 1941.

After the Liberation, the Chabanet camp housed German POWs, members of the milice and so on.

Source: MAURAN H, "Un camp d'indésirables français: Chabanet, en Ardèche" in "Des indésirables, les camps d'internement et de travail dans l'Ardèche et la Drôme durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale", Peuple Libre & Notre Temps, Crest, 1999, pp. 223 - 233

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