Gurs Internment Camp - Figures On Internees at Gurs

Figures On Internees At Gurs

Refugees arriving from Spain
(April 5 to August 31, 1939)
Basques 6,555
Brigadists 6,808
Airmen 5,397
Spaniards 5,760
Total 24,520
Others
(September 1 to April 30, 1940)
Total 2,820
Undesirables
(May 1 to October 24, 1940)
Spaniards 3,695
Germans and Austrians 9,771
French 1,329
Total 14,795
Internees during anti-Semitic legislation
(October 25, 1940 to October 31, 1943)
Germans from Baden 6,538
Arrivals from Saint Cyprien camp 3,870
Spaniards 1,515
Others 6,262
Total 18,185
Last internees by the Vichy government
(April 9, 1944 to August 29, 1944)
Total 229
Internees after the liberation
(August 30, 1944 to December 31, 1945)
German prisoners of war 310
Anti-Franco Spaniards 1,475
Collaborators with the German occupiers 1,585
Total 3,370
Summary
Total before the liberation 60,559
Total after the liberation 3,370
Total people interned (1939–1945) 63,929

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