Camp Vernet | |
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Transit camp | |
Coordinates | 43°11′43″N 1°36′30″E / 43.19528°N 1.60833°E |
Location | Le Vernet, Occitania Vichy France |
Operated by | |
Original use | Troop camp |
First built | 1918 |
Operational | to June 1944 |
Inmates | Spanish refugees, Jews, former members of the International Brigade |
Notable books | The Invisible Writing, Scum of the Earth |
Le Vernet Internment Camp, or Camp Vernet, was a concentration camp[1] in Le Vernet, Ariège, near Pamiers, in the French Pyrenees. It was built in 1918 as a barracks, but after World War I it was used as an internment camp for prisoners of war. From February 1939 to June 1944, it was used:
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