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last minute, Sunday, February 7, 2010: Two panels have disappeared!
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When history falls into the (s) sign (x) ...
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Most of the pictures above were taken on site of the former camp Monday, September 15, 2008. Here is the site of former concentration camp at Montreuil-Bellay (Maine-et-Loire). Find the error ... because if the promoters of these panels had known they would be installed on the same field camp ... definitely a nice detour!
This sign tells you it's one of the most beautiful detours of France, Montreuil-Bellay, this pretty little town of Anjou, deserves your visit ... 
There was a famous precedent. In January 1988, when we managed to erect a memorial stone on the site, there was near the prison, only intact remnant of the former camp, a talented panel that seemed to praise the quality of place: a camp (ing) three stars. This could only shocking, even if one could understand that the thing announced was actually not there, but beside the river and near the Castle, both in town. I then asked that this unfortunate panel retire before the erection of the stele. In vain, as you can see.
Advertising in regional newspapers this cliché was more effective than my request ... and the intruder disappeared quickly for even finally met the desolation of the landscape.
But the black humor is stubborn, and this camp is still a beautiful page of our history ...
A young horse snorts near the steps of all that remains of a barracks in the camp ... Life is here ...
Near the ruins of the imposing all kitchens, dining reservations, a billboard still tinkering with history ... 
The prison cellar of a farmhouse that burned early twentieth century, disappears in the weeds. The stele was inaugurated in January 1988, more resistant to invading abandoned ... 
Beyond these signs recall the chronology of internment in the former concentration camp, as he was sometimes called during the Second World War.
Here, from January 1940 to November 1945, were successively locked behind barbed wire electrified dominated by watchtowers, English Republicans, French soldiers, civilians English, tramps, Russian "White", collaborators, German soldiers , German civilians and Dutch, mostly women, and especially, of 8 November 1941 to January 16, 1945, some 3,000 Gypsies victims of an arbitrary , as conceded the title to the stele, which has agreed to mention that this single population.
Each year on the last Saturday in April, the area around the stele and the prison are cleaned to host a national ceremony. Otherwise, the site is forgotten as the memory of what it was. What political will pity?
This Sunday, February 7, 2010 ... Saturday 6
Yesterday, I accompanied Fabien Delisle, independent filmmaker Touraine who wanted to discover the site of the camp to his young daughter Lou. So I wanted to show two billboards on the specific site of the camp, I realized that there remained one. Most beautiful detours in France , had disappeared. Indicating that Montreuil-Bellay A page of history in Anjou was still in place. This is understandable, this camp is indeed one of the pages - painful - history of Anjou. As for beautiful detour , who had the incredible idea to plant it there??
Continuing our visit, I noticed the large billboard that was displayed behind the ruins of dining / kitchen / store had also disappeared.
Why the sudden disappearance of these two unfortunate panels? Until more information we can always believe that the decision was taken following their posting in this blog. As
was effective publication in the press in 1988, another photo of this "unfortunate" the Camp (ing) three stars ...
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