Les refugies de l'exode, mai-juin 1940, en languedoc mediterraneen
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Abstract EN:
On may 10th 1940, the german troops invade the netherlands, belgium, luxemburg. The civilians with the memories of 1914-1918 branded on their minds start fleeing. Neither the bombs nor the stukas will stop them. Once they have crossed the french border, they keep running away "always further down, further and further to the south". The french civilians will follow them, the flood keeps swelling and pours into the so-called "reserved" depaetments. The mediterranean part of languedoc (aude, gard, herault) will welcome more than 300 000 regugees, that is more than 20% of its population. With the help of the french authorities (the department of refugees with robert schuman at its head) with the delegates of the belgian government, the high commissariat for refugees, these exiled will attempt to adapt themselves to their new life. In august 1940, they start being repatriated the areas where people had been accommodated empty of their refugges. These return to their homes. More than 50 years later, what is left of this episode in the memories of the people?
Abstract FR:
10 mai 1940, les troupes allemandes envahissent les pays-bas, le luxembourg et la belgique. Les civils hantes par les souvenirs de 1914-1918 fuient. Ni les bombardements intenses des stukas ni les ordres ne les arretent. Une fois la frontiere francaise franchie, ils poursuivent leur route se melant aux colonnes de refugies francais. Le flot enfle, le flot se deverse dans les departements dits reserves, eloignes de la zone des combats. Le languedoc mediterraneen (aude, gard, herault) accueillent plus de trois cent mille d'entre eux soit plus de 20% de sa population. Ces exiles tentent avec l'aide des autorites francaises, dont le service des refugies dirige par robert schuman, et des autorites belges, les hauts commissaires aux refugies, de s'adapter a leur nouvelle vie. Aout 1940, une fois les modalites de l'armistice connues, les rapatriements commencent. Les regions d'accueil se vident; les refugies reintegrent leurs foyers. Plus de cinquante ans apres, que reste-t-il de cet episode dans la memoire collective?