Camp Gurs was an internment and refugee camp constructed by the French government in 1939 in Southwest France after the fall of Catalonia at the end of the Spanish Civil War to control those who fled Spain out of fear of retaliation from Francisco Franco's regime.
Camp Gurs was an internment and refugee camp. These internment and refugee camp were constructed by the French government in 1939 in Southwest France after the fall of Catalonia at the end of the Spanish Civil War. This was to control those. This fled Spain out of fear of retaliation from Francisco Franco's regime.