Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A ranar 5 ga Mayu, 1940, a cikin tsammanin mamayewar Jamusawa na Faransa da Low Countries a wannan watan, gwamnan soja na Paris ya ba da sanarwar da ke ba da umarnin duk "baƙi abokan gaba" tsakanin 17 zuwa 55 waɗanda suka zo daga Jamus (galibi Yahudawa) don su ba da rahoto daban don tsarewa. An tattara matan tare a cikin Vélodrome d'Hiver a ranar 15 ga Mayu, don haka mahaifiyar Hannah Arendt, tana da shekaru 55, an ba ta izinin zama a Paris. Arendt ya bayyana tsarin yin 'yan gudun hijira a matsayin "sabon nau'in ɗan adam da tarihin zamani ya ƙirƙira... sanya su a sansanonin taro da abokan gaban su da kuma sansanonin tsare su da abokansu". An tura mutanen, har da Blücher, zuwa sansanin Vernet da ke kudancin Faransa, kusa da iyakar Spain. An tura Arendt da sauran matan zuwa sansanin Gurs, zuwa yammacin Gurs, mako guda bayan haka. Da farko an kafa sansanin ne don a karɓi 'yan gudun hijira daga Spain. A ranar 22 ga Yuni, Faransa ta mika wuya kuma ta sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar.
Yarjejeniyar tsagaita wuta ta Compiègne, ta raba ƙasar. Gurs yana cikin yankin kudancin Vichy. Arendt ta bayyana yadda, "a cikin rikice-rikicen da ya biyo baya mun sami nasarar samun takardun 'yanci wanda muka sami damar barin sansanin", wanda ta yi tare da kimanin mata 200 daga cikin mata 7,000 da aka tsare a can, kimanin makonni hudu bayan haka. Ba a yi Résistance ba a lokacin, amma ta yi nasarar tafiya da hawan arewa zuwa Montauban, kusa da Toulouse inda ta san za ta sami taimako.