Royallieu-Compiègne internment camp

The concentration camp Royallieu (French camp de Royallieu ) at Compiègne ( Oise, France) was a concentration camp (also: camp de transit et d' internal management, camp de détention de police anglais, KZ Compiègne ) that between June 1941 and August 1944 was used by the occupying power as transit camp for prisoner transports to Germany. It was created from the front main camp 122 It was next to Drancy near Paris in France, the other major collection and transit camp during the Holocaust. For many Frenchmen it was the last stop before the German extermination camps.

On March 27, 1942 sailed from here the first deportation from France to Auschwitz from. Of the 1,112 deportees survived so 19 to 1945. From France was followed by 41 more transports.

It was at this time there over 50,000 prisoners. In a shielded portion, bearing C, the living conditions of the prisoners were fatal.

After the Second World War the former camp was used as a French barracks. Housed were the 58e régiment de commandement et de transmissions and the 51e de régiment transmissions.

A monument to the deportations was inaugurated on 23 February 2008.