Article published in La Presse de la Manche – 08/06/2024
“So that the horrors of war no longer strike our countries”.
At the end of June 1944, a German prison camp, Continental Central Enclosure n°19, was set up on the Foucarville and Ravenoville territory. It was placed under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Warren John Kennedy.
60,000 prisoners
Originally designed to accommodate 20,000 prisoners, the camp soon had to be expanded to accommodate another 40,000. *Many inhabitants of the Sainte-Mère-Eglise region were unaware of the existence of this camp,” recalled André Legendre, deputy delegate, yesterday during the ceremony at the stele marking the site of the camp set up by the Americans from June 1944 to February 1946 in the small village of Foucarville, which had just 236 inhabitants at the time…
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