Execution site Chizon Niort

This place, designed specifically for executions, consists of a covered shooting range and a shooting mound in the centre of which a post has been placed. Several tons of earth were brought in to create this mound, which is 4 meters high and 10 meters long. The shooting distance between the range and the mound is 25 metres. (Source: Report of the Commissioner of General Intelligence of Niort, 4/11/1945).

At this location, the Germans shot nine people, five after their conviction in 1942 and 1943 and four others on 19 August 1944. The monument and information board were unveiled on 28/9/2019.

Those executed were: 1942 – Henri Gendrot, Louis Girault; 1943 – Léon Girault, Julien Schuteee-Schwarze, Lucien Brun; 1944 – René Goguelat, Camille Gratien, Charles Lainé and Raymond Kopp (known by his nom de Guerre, “Aubry”).

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