The first transport from the unoccupied zone departed from the Gurs camp on August 5, 1942. Of the 1,000 deportees, 997 were German nationals who were among the 6,538 Jews deported from Baden to unoccupied France on October 22, 1940, and interned by the Vichy government in the Gurs camp. Following the negotiations between German and French authorities at the beginning of July 1942, Theodor Dannecker, head of the Jewish Affairs Department in the Paris Sipo-SD, visited the internment camps in the unoccupied zone. He was accompanied by his deputy, Ernst Heinrichsohn, and the director of the PQJ (Police aux...