This was the quay from which nearly 1,000 prisoners from all walks of life left for Germany on August 2 and 3, 1944. The Allies entered Rennes on 04 08 1944 ... More information on the attached panel.A few dozen meters from the platform, on the site of the track a granite paving stone with the locations of the rail convoy's route to Belfort, and at the end a text recounting the facts.Panel text:Le quai des DéportésIn this place, while the Allies are at the gates of Rennes, on the night of August 2 to 3, 1944, more than a thousand men and women are loaded into cattle cars to be deported to Nazi concentration camps. Among them were Resistance fighters, hostages, soldiers from colonial French troops, allies and mutinous German soldiers.The following day, on the night of August 3 to 4, a second train departing from La Prévalaye met up with the first, at Lion-d'Angers (49), to form a single convoy. It was repeatedly augmented by prisoners from the west of France. On August 6, it was machine-gunned by the British at Langeais (37).Prisoners managed to escape there and at Belfort (90), thanks in particular to an Alsatian Malgré-nous, Charles Schlagdenhafen alias Charly. After more than a month, this train, known as the Langeais train, arrived at concentration camps in Germany, from which most of the inmates would never return. On the morning of August 4, 1944, Rennes was liberated.Contribution and photo credit Christophe ROULLIER