Oct 7, 2004

France allegedly ran its own Camp Delta 50 years ago
The Guardian | More reasons to hate the French (like you needed them)
The government of Charles de Gaulle held hundreds of foreigners, including at least three Britons, in an internment camp near Toulouse for up to four years after the second world war, according to secret documents. The papers, part of a cache of 12,000 photocopied illegally by an Austrian-born Jew, reveal the extent to which French officials collaborated with their fleeing Nazi occupiers even as their country was being liberated. They also show that, when the war was over, France went to extraordinary lengths to hide as much evidence of that collaboration as possible... Noé camp, 25 miles south of Toulouse, continued to function secretly for several years after the war. Noé was one of 300 camps set up after 1939 to hold Jews, communists and other 'anti-French' militants, Gypsies, common criminals and enemy aliens... [Kurt Werner Schaechter] says his documents indicate that a 'special section' of Noé was active until at least 1947.