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Last survivor of France's only concentration camp recounts imprisonment on 100th birthday

Henri Mosson turns 100 years old on November 25, 2024. The former resistance fighter is the last survivor of the Natzwiller-Struthof camp (in Alsace region), the only Nazi concentration camp in France. France Télévisions met him. In the heart of the Alsatian forest, the memory of Nazi barbarism still remains. Watchtowers and a gallows are the remains of the terrible Natzwiller-Struthof camp, the only concentration camp in France. It was built in 1941, when Alsace was German, annexed by the Third Reich. At Struthof and its annex camps, 50,000 deportees went through hell. Henri Mosson was number 6,290. The former Resistance fighter was arrested in Dijon and tortured by the Gestapo, before being deported to the camp in Alsace. At the age of 100, he is one of the last witnesses. "It was appalling...I saw people who weighed 28 kilos", he recalls. He shared the ordeal of resistance fighters and political prisoners from all over Europe. The camp was built for them, nicknamed ‘NN’ by the Nazis, for "Nacht-und-Nebel", "Night and Fog". 17,000 people died there, including 8,000 French, and the site is now a place of remembrance. SHOTLIST LOCATION: Natzwiller Drone Alsatian forest Aerial view of the Natzwiller-Struthof concentration camp MS Mirador in the concentration camp MS Gallows C/U Barbed wire surrounding the camp GV Natzwiller-Struthof camp Gfx Photo archive with barracks Gfx Map of Alsace annexed by the Third Reich + Natzwiller C/U Barbed wire LOCATION : Dijon VS Henri Mosson in his living room C/U Henri Mosson 00:44:17 SOUNDBITE (French) Henri Mosson, former member of the Resistance, deported to the Natzweiler-Struthof camp: "It was abominable! We ate whatever was available...lots of boiled kohlrabi, a slice of bread, theoretically 200 grams a day, theoretically...I saw people who weighed 28 kilos. All they had was skin and bones." MS Henri Mosson VS Man entering the Struthof camp C/U Gallows in the fog VS Barbed wire 01:33:07 SOUNDBITE (French) Cédric Neveu, Historian: "This was a decree issued in December 1941 targeting resistance fighters in intelligence networks, saboteurs, terrorists, particularly dangerous people. From the moment they entered the camp, when they had ‘NN’ status ("Nacht und Nebel": night and fog), they had to disappear in the greatest secrecy, without a trace. We have accounts of particularly terrible roll calls, where prisoners collapse and are supported by their comrades to stay on their feet, because you have to remain completely upright and motionless during the roll call." GV Struthof camp MS Camp barrack called the ‘bunker’ MS Interior of the barrack Aerial views of Struthof camp Village "Salle des fêtes" where, at the time, a gas chamber was installed Michael Landolt Director of the European Centre of Deported Resistance Members (CERD) arrives at the site of the gas chamber VS Gas chamber designed by the camp doctor, August Hirt, where 86 Jews were gassed 02:29:19 SOUNDBITE (French) Michael Landolt, Director of the European Centre of Deported Resistance Members (CERD): "Professor Hirt wanted to make an anthropological collection with human fragments of Jews. The idea was to have fragments for the future, after the disappearance of the Jews, that students could study, that could be seen in museums, like a collection of fossils in a museum." MS Memorial in honor of the victims C/U Names of the victims Drone images of Struthof camp