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Six thousand Spanish men joined the Foreign Legion. About 30,000 Spanish refugees in France with the resources to pay for their passage emigrated to third countries, especially Mexico. [19] The presence of the refugees in France became more acceptable to the French public with the beginning of World War II in September 1939. The remaining ...
War. German sailors save Spanish civilians at the beginning of the Civil War 1938 Mexico Refugees in Madrid: Refugiados en Madrid: Alejandro Galindo: Drama, Romance, War. Refugees in Madrid 1938–39 France Spain Days of Hope or Man's Hope: Espoir: Sierra de Teruel: Boris Peskine André Malraux: Drama, War.
The Argelers concentration camp was an internment camp established in early February 1939 [1] on the territory of the French commune of Argelès-sur-Mer for Spanish Republican refugees. Called La Retirada (the withdrawal) many of the refugees were members of the Spanish Republican Army (Ejército Popular Republicano) in the Northeast of Spain ...
Numerous internment camps and concentration camps were located in France before, during and after World War II. Beside the camps created during World War I to intern German, Austrian and Ottoman civilian prisoners, the Third Republic (1871–1940) opened various internment camps for the Spanish refugees fleeing the Spanish Civil War (1936
Several Spanish refugees were used to play the parts of Franco's Guardia Civil officers. [4] The American leftist political activist Allard K. Lowenstein assisted by making contact between the filmmakers and anti-Francoist Spanish exiles in France. [5] Zinnemann wanted Gregory Peck to meet actual political refugees living in France. [4]
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Following the Retirada (the exodus of about half a million refugees from Spain to France in early 1939 at the end of the Spanish Civil War), [3] [4] the French government decided to use Camp Joffre to intern more than 15,000 Catalan refugees. This decision was never fully put into action, although a small influx of Catalan refugees was held ...
The Spanish Civil War and hardship immediately after spurred Spanish migration to the more developed and democratic France, which had a labour shortage in the aftermath of the Second World War. [37] The Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, resident in the French capital Paris since 1901, was refused naturalisation shortly after Franco took control of ...