Camp des Milles
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The Camp des Milles was a French concentration camp, opened in September 1939, in a former tile factory near the village of Les Milles, part of the commune of Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône).
The camp was first used to intern Germans living in the Marseilles Area, and by June 1940, some 3500 artists and intellectuals were detained there. Surrealist artists Hans Bellmer and Max Ernst were imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison for most of World War II. 2000 of the inmates were shipped off to Drancy camp on the way to Auschwitz
After the war, the site was briefly re-opened in 1946 as a factory.
Since 1993, the sites serves as a World War II memorial.
In 1995 a movie titled "Les Milles" commemorating this camp and the events that took place in this camp at the time of the Armistice in June 1940 was made.
[edit] External links
- Website about the Camp des Milles
- The artists of the Camp des Milles (in French)
- Personal website about the camp (in French)
- Webpage about the camp (in French)
