The Spanish prosecution announced today the launch of an investigation into nearly 4,500 Spanish in Nazi concentration camps where they were sent after they were self -exiled to France to escape Franco’s dictatorship. With her investigation, the prosecutor’s office wants to determine whether there was a “common strategy of the Spanish dictatorship under Francisco Franco and the Nazi regime in arresting and transferring thousands of Spaniards who had been exiled to France to various concentration camps,” he said in a statement. The death of 4,435 Spanish in these camps has been recorded in the death registrars. They were mainly sent to “Mauthausen (Austria) and Guzen (Germany), where they underwent forced labor, torture, disappeared or murdered,” the Department of Human Rights and Democratic Memory of the Public Prosecutor’s Office underlined it. The announcement is made while the “80th anniversary of the release of the Mauthausen concentration camp is celebrated,” the statement said. The initiative is derived from “provisions of the law on democratic memory” promoted by the left -wing government of Pedro Sanchez […]
Source: News Beast
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