After WW2, like most countries building new houses and reassembly of busted up houses was the necessity. In France they had to import builders/electricians and plumbers etc from as far afield as Sweden and Scotland. In fact the house that we rent right now (c.1951), the wooden staircase was built by a guy from Glasgow, the electrics a guy from Goteborg and all the internal plumbing and kitchen by a Chinese refugee who escaped the numerous death camps situated around Pamiers and Lavalanet.
If you ever get the chance to visit you'll see people from every nationality represented in the (reconstituted) graveyard: Turks, Americans, Russians, British, Japanese, Chinese etc. The Nazis were not fussy which politicals or races or religions they murdered. It's still a thing very few people 'au coin' are even willing to admit to.
