The Al-Guardian breaks the news that the De Gaulle government continued to hold Allied POWs in an internment camp after France had been liberated.

They had to hide evidence of collaboration, don't you know?

These appear to be civilians, "enemy aliens" not POWs, who literally paid for the privilege of French incarceration.

Typical French reaction to this ancient wrong?:

Mr Schaechter's activities - last year he used some of the papers to try to force the French railway SNCF to admit its responsibility in shipping 76,000 Jews to Nazi death camps - have infuriated some French historians, who say their privileged access to classified archives has been compromised.

Do not muck with French privilege.

Sadly this story just trails off into mystery:

But what happened to those, many elderly and infirm, who stayed? Some are marked "transferred". Others were moved in 1947 to Pithiviers or Rivesaltes camps, both officially closed. Some are marked: "Agreed with Mr Casse - to be lost". And what that means, no one knows.

Go read the whole sad business.

DGB