Fort de Romainville

Fort de Romainville
Transit camp
Entrance archway
Fort de Romainville is located in Paris and inner ring
Fort de Romainville
Location of Fort de Romainville within Paris and inner ring
Fort de Romainville is located in France
Fort de Romainville
Fort de Romainville (France)
Coordinates48°53′06″N 2°25′22″E / 48.885126°N 2.422718°E / 48.885126; 2.422718
LocationLes Lilas, Île-de-France
Occupied France
Built bySecond French Republic
Operated bySS
CommandantBickenbach
Original useMilitary fort for the protection of Paris
First built1844–48
OperationalOctober 1940 – 19 August 1944
InmatesFrench Resistance, French communists
Killed152
Notable inmatesPierre Georges, Danielle Casanova, Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, Hélène Solomon-Langevin, Charlotte Delbo
Panorama of the Fort de Romainville, at the beginning of the 20th century

Fort de Romainville, (in English, Fort Romainville) was built in France in the 1830s[1] and was used as a Nazi concentration camp in World War II.

  1. ^ MacIntyre, Ben (September 4, 2007). Agent Zigzag: a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal. Harmony. pp. 29–50. ISBN 978-0-307-35340-5.