Camp Royallieu (Frontstalag 122)
Historical Information
Camp Royallieu (German: Frontstalag 122) was an internment camp during World War II and also one of the largest transit camps in Nazi-occupied France. The camp was located in the town of Compiègne, near Paris. About 54,000 Jews, resistance fighters, militant trade unionists, politicians and other persecuted were imprisoned here. About 50,000 of them were deported from Royallieu to concentration and extermination camps such as Auschwitz, Dachau, Mauthausen and Buchenwald. Royallieu also housed the Jewish camp, "Camp C", which was already an extermination camp in itself because of the hunger and disease that prevailed there.
Little was known about the Royallieu internment camp until the first historical study was published in 2008. Since 2008, there has been a museum with a documentation center on the site of Royallieu. There are also some original camp buildings.
