Attichy was a German POW camp. The Americans used to bus the locals in for dancing. One French girl met a GI and here I am. I was born on the farm in '48 about 5 miles from the camp in Chelles. My father passed away and here are some of his pictures. A lot are of him and his buddies. Some have comments on the backs but most do not. Jack / jumpin rainman
These are the cooks in the prison camp. My mother says they are French but to me, some if not most, are German. They look German even though there might be some other nationalities. |
 My father with what he describes in another picture of the head German cook.
My father did not know where this picture was taken. |
 Here are some GI buddies with the camp in the background.  This photo speaks for itself. |
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Photo on the left in front of the kitchen. On the right, this might be a local boy with my father. He looks young for a POW. The paper say "Riots in Palestine" which I think would put it in 1947. |
Hi Olga,
I came across your nice web pages concerning post WWII Displaced Persons. When I came upon your "DP Camps in FRANCE" page, I was wondering why the Attichy Camp in Picardie, France was not mentioned. Attichy was a post WWII DP camp that was basically for Germans. It is described in the following book:
7/16/06 Hello
Very kind of you to post a message at this man intention. I just want to be in touch with Jack and to ask if i could use his pictures. My article contain 11 pages and try to answer to James Baques thesis. I used some german POW account an a Life magazine issue. Since this time, I found a lot of new information about this camp completly outside of our collective memory. A national french newspaper "Le Parisen" published an article on my work and I hope to get more local account from civilians leaving at this moment around the camp. Please let me know your postal adress and i will send you a copy. I have to meet some prisoners on September 10th and I think that I will publish a second part next year.
Best Regards, Marc Pilot, email: pilot80@free.fr
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