History of the Poitou-Charentes

The history of the Poitou-Charentes starts with the creation of the areas, under the mode of Vichy.

This area without clean identity, corresponding to the Mid-west of France, was created to fill the vacuum of influence between Tours and Bordeaux, by joining together old provinces: Poitou, Angoumois, Saintonge and Aunis.

Poitiers was selected like prefecture, not because of an unspecified preeminence (it makes the same size as La Rochelle and Angouleme), but because it had a Université.

The Second world war

At the time of the Second world war, the Poitiers, concentration camp of the Nomads near, on the Trunk road 147, which had been used to lock up the Tziganes and the Spanish refugees, was re-used by the Kommandantur of Poitiers. Starting from the June 15th 1941, it parked in a provisional way there the Jews, before conveying them for Drancy. Some people, whose Rabbi Élie Bloch, some pastors Protestant and Father Jean Fleury, chaplain of the Tziganes, tried to save some, in particular while placing children in Jewish or not-Jewish families of reception. However, these efforts were little of effects vis-a-vis the very good collaboration of Kommandantur and total Préfecture.Au, nearly 1600 Jews were sent towards Drancy starting from this camp, of which the rabbi Élie Bloch, died in Auschwitz.

The rebuilding

The Thirty glorious ones

The the Seventies

The years eighty and ninety

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