A Place where Things Just Ended, Part 1

The Nazis, with the collaboration of the Vivhy government, deported over 40,000 people from the Royallieu-Compiegne transit camp, constructed on old French army barracks from the Great War. They were political prisoners, Jews, resistance fighters, and went to Dora and Auschwitz. After a death march, a German discovered various diaries and later returned them to Compiegne, where they are part of this collection.